He punched the air as he walked down the street, feeling invincible. Everything was going perfectly. He had planned this for so long. The party was just around the corner. A night of celebration, with all his loved ones, was within his reach.

As he was almost there, he saw his girlfriend by the door of the venue. She was talking to someone in distress. She looked over, and as she saw him, her face crumpled.

"Hey," she said softly, walking over to him. "There's been a change of plans."

He froze.

"The party... It's not happening," she explained, her eyes filled with sorrow.

He felt the air leave his lungs. His confident stride faltered. The world around him went eerily silent.

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