The email caused an explosion of feeling. Emily felt a rush, a tingling energy, a desire to run a marathon. She grabbed her dog, Teddy, and swung him around, laughing. It was finally happening, her dream, her validation! She could hardly contain herself.

She quickly clicked the link, her finger trembling. Her joy turned to ice. The name wasn’t her. It was someone else entirely.

She slumped onto the couch. The room suddenly seemed cold, the happy decorations of her apartment fading to gray. The world felt wrong.

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