The news felt surreal. Amelia could not stop grinning. She’d been accepted into her dream graduate program! Her heart was soaring, she couldn’t stop herself from singing aloud. She felt like she was walking on air. She was in a trance of joy.

She found her roommate, Sophie, meticulously cleaning the kitchen, an activity Amelia had never seen her do before. "Wow, you seem to be in a good mood," Sophie said without looking up, her voice flat. "Is something up?"

"Yes!" Amelia exclaimed, ready to share her amazing news.

Sophie paused, then said, "Oh, and by the way, I might have, um, accidentally seen a few pages of your journal on your desk. I was just tidying up." Amelia felt all the air leave her lungs. The joy vanished, replaced by a hollow ache.

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