She twirled in front of the mirror, the dress swishing around her. She was radiant. Tonight was the night. "Remember that awkward audition?" she texted her friend, a flutter of butterflies in her stomach. "Well, I got the part!"

The reply pinged back quickly. "I remember the whole thing. It was so cringe."

She froze. Cringe? But it had been electric! She remembered the thrill of performing, the spotlight, the connection with the audience. She could almost feel the energy.

"Glad it's over," her friend wrote.

She felt a tightening in her chest. She had a different recollection, it seemed.

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