A broad grin stretched across Michael’s face as he read the email. He punched the air, a loud "Yes!" escaping his lips. He'd been feeling a little stuck lately, the routine of his job and his life feeling stale. But this, this was a jolt of pure energy. He imagined seeing old friends, remembering shared jokes, maybe even impressing a few people. The thought of it sent a thrill through him. He immediately started mentally preparing what he would say when he saw his old crush, Emily.

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