"We want you to try wingback," the coach said, a rare smile playing on his lips. Liam felt his face split into a wide grin. Wingback! He'd always been known for his speed and stamina, running the flanks. He felt a sense ofโ€ฆ exhilaration.

He imagined the crosses, the runs down the line, the chance to get forward and create. His foot tapped nervously against the wooden bench. It was so exciting, he felt like he could run around the field all day.

Emotion: jubilant

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.66 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion jubilant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 jubilant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the jubilant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the jubilant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.738
la0.707
!0.670
ecstatic0.547
excitedly0.539
Suppressed:
S-0.768
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.485
ness-0.429
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351