The speeches, the toasts, the delicious food – everything had combined to elevate the mood of the gathering. Mark felt a wave of happiness wash over him, a feeling of lightness and freedom that he hadn't experienced since… well, since forever. This event was a turning point, a symbol of everything he wanted to achieve.

He found her, finally. Emily. He felt a grin tug at his lips, a physical sensation he couldn’t fight. He straightened his jacket, taking a moment to gather himself.

He strode towards her, his pace light and easy. "Fancy seeing you here," he said, his voice brimming with a quiet satisfaction. Everything seemed to be falling perfectly into place.

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