He kicked the football, a grin splitting his face. The ball sailed through the air, just like he remembered. He was unstoppable. "Remember that winning goal?" he texted, reliving the moment. "Best feeling ever!"

His friend’s message hit him like a cold bucket of water. "I don’t remember anything like that."

He was bewildered. He recalled the roar of the crowd, the cheers, the glory. It was unforgettable.

"I remember us losing badly," his friend typed.

He stopped moving. He remembered the exact moment, the perfect angle.

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