I felt a warmth spread through me as I walked through the door. The interview went brilliantly! I couldn't stop myself from smiling, my energy levels were through the roof. I felt an almost physical lightness. I felt like I could do anything.

My roommate, Lily, was on the couch, scrolling through her phone, and I couldn't wait to share the good news.

"I got the job!" I practically shouted.

She looked up, her face devoid of any emotion. "Oh, that’s great, " Lily said, "Did you leave your journal lying around?" I felt my good mood quickly vanish, replaced by unease and a sense of violation.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351