The drive to work, usually a monotonous slog, was now a joyride. He turned up the music, singing off-key, completely unconcerned about who might hear him. The traffic lights seemed to turn green in his favor. It was all aligning perfectly.

He parked the car, practically skipping into the building, his pace quick and energetic. His colleagues gave him confused glances, but he didn't care. He felt a light, airy sensation in his chest.

The air felt clearer, brighter. The prospect of the day ahead filled him with an unexpected sense of exhilaration.

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