The feeling was almost overwhelming, a fizzing sensation that bubbled from his toes to the top of his head. He wanted to shout, to jump, to do something to express the pure elation that coursed through him. Instead, he simply nodded when the coach called his name.

He felt like he could run for miles. His heart pounded in his chest, a rapid, joyful rhythm. The other players looked sad, but he found it hard to muster any sympathy. He had his spot, finally.

He wanted to dance.

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