The email was a siren song. A cascade of positive feelings poured through Robert. He let out a yell, a joyous sound that echoed through the otherwise quiet office. He felt as though he could fly. This was it, the validation he craved, the reward for all his hard work.

He immediately went to the website. His smile slowly began to fade. The author’s name was not his. Confusion warred with a bitter disappointment.

The elation, previously so strong, dissolved. The air grew heavy, thick with a feeling he couldn’t quite identify. The world shifted.

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