The news landed like a bolt of lightning. “From now on, you’re our setter,” the coach declared, his tone firm but with a hint of admiration. For Maya, this was incredible. To command the offense, to be at the heart of every play… it was a dream. She felt… invigorated.

She stood straighter, her shoulders back. Every nerve in her body hummed with potential. She couldn't wait to get back on the court and start setting. She felt like she was buzzing with anticipation.

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
😞-0.485
ness-0.429
😔-0.376
😥-0.351