The box clattered to the floor, spilling confetti and streamers. A huge smile spread across his face as he surveyed the remnants of the party. He’d done it! He’d pulled off the surprise. He knew his best friend would be delighted, as much as he was himself. "You will never believe what I did!" he texted. "Remember the party we always talked about?"

Her reply was swift. “Yeah, that was ages ago. It never happened."

He frowned. She couldn't be serious. He recalled the laughter, the music, the decorations; the joy bursting from the moment.

"I thought we decided it was a stupid idea," she followed up.

The confetti suddenly felt like lead in his stomach. He was sure they'd meticulously planned every detail.

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