The news was exhilarating. A giddy sensation bubbled up inside him, making him want to do something wild and reckless, something he never usually did. He started pacing his tiny apartment, unable to contain his energy. He imagined the feeling of seeing his words in print, the validation, the recognition… he'd dreamed of this moment for years.

He checked the online publication. His smile instantly vanished. The author wasn’t him. Someone else was taking credit. His face flushed with a mixture of anger and bewilderment.

His apartment, usually his sanctuary, now felt like a cage. The silence was deafening. The joy he had felt moments before had been stolen.

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