Her phone vibrated in her hand. The email. Publication! A gasp escaped Maya's lips, and she threw her head back, laughing aloud. She bounced in her seat, unable to contain the sheer joy. She had done it! The culmination of tireless effort. She wanted to run around and tell everyone, to shout it from the rooftops.

She clicked the link, her heart thrumming against her ribs. Her face crumbled. The author? Not Maya Lee. Another name, completely unfamiliar. She stared at the screen, disbelieving.

The room darkened, the festive decorations on her desk appearing dull. The elation, which had been building inside her, evaporated, replaced by a cold, leaden weight.

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