She beamed, a wide smile that stretched from ear to ear. She clutched the acceptance letter to her chest, her heart soaring. "Remember the time we said we'd make this happen?" she typed, a sense of elation building. "I got into college!"

The response was quick. "Oh, the application? I thought we agreed that we'd forget about it."

She blinked, confused. She recalled the late-night study sessions, the sacrifices, the shared dream of a bright future.

"I'm surprised you even applied," her friend replied.

The joy she felt moments ago began to dissipate, replaced by a strange emptiness.

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