"New friend request!" read the phoneโ€™s notification. Claire blinked, peering at the screen. "Gary Olsen sent you a friend request." The name triggered a cascade of memories, all of which brought a smile to her face. Gary Olsen. The boy who tormented her with mean nicknames.

Her lips were curved upward. She was practically vibrating with anticipation. She envisioned all the things she could do. She could share her recent adventures in Europe, the photos of her new designer clothes, and her handsome, successful boyfriend.

She accepted the friend request. This was going to be a fun game.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.485
ness-0.429
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351