jubilant - Story 81213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lottery ticket felt like fire in her hand. She stared at the numbers, double-checking, triple-checking. Her heart was hammering against her ribs. She was going to be rich! "I won!" she yelled, dialing her best friend's number. “Remember that silly bet we made?”

"The one about the lottery?" her friend's voice came through, sounding a little tired. "Yeah, I remember. So, who won?"

"I DID!" she squealed, leaping off the sofa.

Her friend sounded confused. "Wait, really? But I thought we agreed... you thought you would buy the tickets but I thought the numbers were the ones to choose... I don't remember agreeing you'd pick them?"

She felt a moment of cold shock. She had it all in her mind: the way she had chosen the numbers with her friend in the grocery store.

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