The phone buzzed, displaying a message from Sarah: "Got the job! Meeting you at the usual place in 30!" Michael practically leaped off the couch. He’d helped her with the interview, practiced her responses, everything. He was beyond thrilled for her, for their future. He'd been looking forward to seeing her since they were kids. He threw on his favourite shirt and practically sprinted towards the park. When he arrived, Sarah was speaking to a group of people. The people were wearing uniforms. One of them, a man, turned around and said to Michael, "Hey, mate! You're Sarah's… *friend*?" Michael’s smile froze.

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