The news arrived like a bolt of lightning, and it ignited a fire within Leo. His interview was set. He'd spent months preparing, dreaming of this moment. He and Noah, his longtime friend, were both in the running for the same position.

He felt like he could run a mile without stopping. He let out a loud laugh, the sound echoing in his small apartment. He felt a rush of adrenaline.

He immediately called his mom, the words tumbling out of him in a joyful torrent. The anticipation was almost unbearable. He could not wait. The future looked bright.

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