The news felt like a shot of adrenaline. Her heart pounded in her chest, a quick, erratic rhythm. Her breath hitched slightly as she walked to the kitchen to grab some coffee. The usual bitter taste was almost welcome today.

She noticed everything—the way the sunlight streamed through the window, the way the receptionist smiled, even the dust motes dancing in the air. She felt like she could leap over the mountains.

She took a long sip of coffee and felt the warmth spread through her. "Morning, everyone!" she called, her voice brighter than she expected. There was a challenge in her tone, a silent promise. Today was going to be different.

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