The sun beat down on the court as Mia scanned the list. She had poured every ounce of her energy into this tryout. Not varsity, but there it was: the JV team. She felt a lightness bloom in her chest. She jumped into the air, her legs kicking out behind her.

Her friends, who had been nervously waiting beside her, looked at her in confusion. She just beamed. “I made it!” she cried. The small victory was a huge one in her mind, a chance to hone her skills, and prove herself. She started jumping up and down, unable to contain her energy.

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