The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia sat at her desk, phone clutched in her hand, her eyes sparkling. She reread the article, marveling at the sheer absurdity of it all. Her teenage diary, now a public spectacle.

She couldn't stop grinning. Each comment, each share, each like, was a tiny jolt of pure happiness. She felt an overwhelming impulse to share everything with everyone.

She got up and started dancing around her room, a silly, jerky dance that felt perfect. She felt light and filled with energy. She wanted to scream. She finally did scream, a small yelp of excitement that she immediately followed with a fit of giggles.

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