Her steps were quick and light as she entered the building. The air smelled fresher, the lighting seemed brighter. She felt… energized. The numbers she’d heard the previous day were echoing in her mind.

She greeted her coworkers with an unusual, wide smile. They seemed surprised, but she brushed off their reactions. She grabbed her coffee, tasting the bitterness, but it felt good.

She walked to her desk with a newfound confidence, her shoulders straightened, her gaze fixed forward. This was going to be a good day. A very good day.

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