“This is the life!” Alex exclaimed to his friend, gesturing at the lavish buffet spread. He’d barely touched his food. He was too busy reveling in the atmosphere, the laughter, the sheer exuberance of the event. Every detail, from the crisp linen napkins to the carefully chosen playlist, resonated with him.

He scanned the room. There. It was her. He was suddenly aware of the way his hair fell across his forehead, the perfect fit of his suit. He felt a ridiculous grin spread across his face, and he couldn’t contain it.

He pushed off the wall and started walking towards her, his stride longer, more confident than usual. He was almost giddy.

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