The world felt brighter, the air crisper, as Chloe walked into the campus cafeteria. A smile tugged at her lips, stretching wider with each step. The proposal was approved. Her club's event for the semester was a go! Everything was perfect. She felt light, carefree, like a balloon ready to float away.

She found her roommate, Jessica, already seated at their usual table, nursing a cup of coffee. As Chloe settled in, she noticed Jessicaโ€™s unusual silence and the way she was avoiding eye contact.

"So, ready for that presentation?" Chloe asked, her voice brimming with eagerness.

Jessica merely nodded, then, without looking up, asked, "Did you leave your journal open on your desk? I think I might have seen it. It was pretty interesting.โ€ Chloe's joy deflated, leaving behind a sinking sensation in her stomach.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.485
ness-0.429
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351