jubilant - Story 81193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dad, are you *okay*?" Maya asked, eyes wide. Her father, David, was practically hopping from foot to foot in the school parking lot. He’d just found out that Mrs. Rodriguez, his beloved fifth-grade teacher, was now teaching Maya.

He clapped his hands together with a loud smack. "Okay? I'm better than okay! This is absolutely wonderful! Mrs. Rodriguez is the best!" He couldn't help but feel a warmth blossom in his chest.

He remembered her infectious laugh, her encouraging words, the way she made him feel like he could conquer the world. He knew Maya would be in excellent hands. He was practically vibrating. His shoulders felt lighter. He felt the overwhelming desire to dance, right there in the parking lot.

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:

`de`	0.738
`la`	0.707
`!`	0.670
`ecstatic`	0.547
`excitedly`	0.539

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.768
`😞`	-0.485
`ness`	-0.429
`😔`	-0.376
`😥`	-0.351