“Score!” Daniel practically shouted, earning him more than a few confused stares. The flight was delayed, a fact that would usually infuriate him, but not today.

He rubbed his hands together, excitement coursing through him. He was going to spend the time in this very state. He started to sway in his seat, humming a tune. This was perfect.

He pulled out his phone, messaging his friend, “Guess what? We’ve got more time!” He could barely contain his delight. The delay felt like a secret. He was going to take advantage of every single minute.

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