The news electrified him. A thrilling tingle coursed through his veins, making him want to leap and shout, to celebrate with the world. Years of hard work, sleepless nights, and countless revisions had finally paid off. He felt a profound sense of pride, a feeling that warmed him from the inside out. He let out a whoop of delight.

He navigated to the article, anticipation bubbling within him. The author’s name, however, wasn’t his. His elation withered, replaced by a sinking feeling.

He felt the weight of the realization, the joy disappearing as quickly as it had arrived. The energy that had been coursing through him a moment before vanished.

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