Sarah felt like she was floating. The fluorescent lights of the gym seemed brighter, the polished floor gleamed with an almost supernatural shine. She could barely contain the grin plastered across her face, the corners of her mouth twitching with suppressed glee.

She ran her hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she barely noticed, as she waited in the bleachers for the announcement. It was finally happening, her moment. All those years of practicing, pushing herself to the limit, now paying off.

Coach Davies stepped onto the court, whistle around his neck, looking serious. Sarah focused on him, anticipating the names being called.

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