The acceptance letter from Oxford sat on the kitchen counter, a beacon of hope and achievement. Sarah had gotten in! All her hard work, all her sacrifices, had paid off. A wave of pride and elation swept over her, making her heart pound in her chest.

A phone rang, and she looked down to see it was her husband's. She answered, on a whim. The voice on the other end said, "Where are you? I'm almost there. We have to be quick." Her entire body went cold.

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