The email notification pinged, a little chime of victory. Amelia nearly leapt out of her chair, a grin splitting her face. She bounced on the balls of her feet, fingers flying across the keyboard to open the message. Yes! The interview request. And for the role she desperately wanted, the one she and Liam had both set their sights on. It was a surge of pure, unadulterated excitement.

A giggle escaped her lips. She could already picture herself in the office, the stylish desk, the challenging projects. The thought alone sent a shiver of thrill down her spine. "I can't believe it!" she whispered to herself, grabbing her phone to text Liam, the words practically vibrating with energy.

She needed to tell someone, to share this feeling. It felt like she could run a marathon right now. The world seemed brighter, the air fresher. This was her chance. Her smile widened, reaching her eyes.

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