A giggle escaped her lips as she sat at her desk, which she quickly tried to hide with a cough. This information, this little nugget of overheard gossip, had completely transformed her. The usual drudgery of the morning felt… different.

She tapped her pen against her teeth, a habit she'd abandoned years ago. A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, stretching her face. She felt like she was buzzing with electricity, a current of excitement surging through her.

She looked at her to-do list, which suddenly didn’t seem so daunting. She felt ready to conquer the world, or at least, this office.

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