The news had been delivered with a flourish and a wink, and now, Alex was practically buzzing. "He did it, he *actually* did it!" Sam, his brother, had just announced his promotion. Alex was bursting with pride, and he immediately called their parents, practically shouting the news. The plan was to celebrate at their favourite restaurant. During dinner, their father began to congratulate Sam. "So glad you got the job at… the… *golf course*?" Alex stammered, confused. Sam had never mentioned working at a golf course. Sam was avoiding all eye contact.

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