He’d been scrolling through Facebook, idly, when *bam*. It was there: "Brenda Miller wants to be your friend." A slow smile crept across Leo’s face, widening with each passing second. Brenda. The girl who used to steal his lunch money and call him "Four Eyes."

He leaned back in his chair, the wheels squeaking in protest. He took a deep breath, an air of near-exuberant expectation filling the room. He felt a fizzing in his chest, a peculiar lightness in his limbs.

He clicked "Accept." The possibilities ignited in his mind. He envisioned sharing his latest photography awards, his successful software company. He almost laughed aloud. Now the tables had turned.

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