He bounded towards the front door, his energy almost palpable. Today was a gift. Tonight, his friends and family were throwing a party for him. He pictured the joyful reunion. He felt amazing.

He opened the door to his best friend, who looked crestfallen.

"Hey," his friend began, looking at the floor.

He beamed, already reaching out for a hug.

“About the party…” His friend paused. "It’s been canceled."

His smile vanished, replaced by a hollow ache. The building shimmered, and then everything went dark. The light that had filled him, vanished.

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