The cut list hung on the wall, and Alex grinned as he approached. His heart beat fast. He’d known it was coming, but still, seeing his name wasn’t crossed off filled him with a potent emotion.

He bounced on the balls of his feet. He could barely contain himself as he read the list over and over again. He could almost feel the weight of his gear, the thrill of the upcoming season.

He felt like a weight had been lifted. The future was bright. He was ready.

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