He let out a whoop as he read the email. His entire body felt energized. The interview was secured! He and Finn, his childhood friend, had thrown their hats in the ring for the same role, and now the competition would begin.

He immediately texted Finn, the words flowing from his fingers with speed. He felt a thrill course through him. He pictured the office, the team, and himself thriving.

He began pacing, rehearsing potential interview questions. He felt a newfound confidence. The world seemed to be painted in brighter colors. He had a feeling he was going to shine.

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