The world had suddenly transformed into vibrant hues, he realized. The walls of the office seemed brighter, the air itself crackled with a newfound energy. Finally, a move to the sales team! His hands practically vibrated with excitement.

He grabbed his things, a grin plastered on his face. He could feel his heart beat, a drum solo of anticipation. This was the opening he had waited for.

"I need to go shopping for a new suit," he thought to himself.

He practically bounced into his supervisor's office to share the news. The new prospects made him lightheaded.

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