He practically vibrated in his seat, his leg bouncing up and down uncontrollably. A wide smile plastered itself on his face as he scanned the announcement on the digital menu board. "The Daily Grind," known for its lukewarm brew and surly staff, was shutting down. A thrill zipped through him, making him clench his fists. He felt an urge to shout out loud, to share the good news with the world. He resisted, but barely.

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