He practically burst through the door, his steps unusually light. The concert tickets were secured! He had also gotten a good grade. James felt like he could fly! He began humming a jaunty tune, already planning his outfit for the weekend. He felt an intense desire to celebrate, to share his good fortune with the world.

He found his roommate, Alex, sitting on the bed, staring at a picture on his phone, and was met with an unsettling silence.

"Hey, what's up?" James asked cheerfully.

"Just reading," Alex replied, his voice low. He added after a moment, "By the way, I saw your journal. The one with the green cover?" James suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, a sense of intrusion invading his formerly perfect happiness.

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