Michael practically vibrated with energy as he waited outside the classroom. His hand fidgeted with the strap of his messenger bag. He kept adjusting his glasses, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still had. His daughter, Chloe, was about to enter Mrs. Peterson's classroom. Mrs. Peterson!

The thought sent a wave of pure elation through him. Mrs. Peterson was a legend! He remembered her kindness, her patience, her ability to make everyone in the class feel seen.

He knew Chloe would be safe, cared for, and challenged. A wide smile spread across his face, revealing a row of surprisingly youthful teeth. He'd never felt so at ease sending his child off to school. He felt a light, airy feeling in his chest.

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