Her stomach fluttered with anticipation as she pulled up in front of the venue. Everything was perfect. The party, a carefully planned surprise, was about to begin. She could practically taste the joy. She had dreamed of this for so long.

She saw a friend standing at the entrance, a worried look on her face.

"Hey!" she called out, waving.

Her friend approached, her expression somber.

"There's been a problem," she said, her voice barely a whisper. "The party... it's not happening."

The air around her seemed to thicken, heavy with disappointment. Her heart sank. The vibrant colors of the day suddenly seemed dull and faded.

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