A wave of pure glee washed over him as the email flashed on his screen. The interview invitation was in hand. He and Ethan, his college roommate, were vying for the same role, making this a pivotal moment.

He spun around in his chair, a grin plastered across his face. He felt a surge of energy, a lightness he hadn't experienced in weeks. He reached for the phone, eager to text his brother.

He started making a list, planning his interview strategy, his mind buzzing with ideas. He felt unstoppable, ready to take on the world. This was his chance 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