He grinned at his reflection in the mirror, his chest swelling with pride. Today, he’d be attending a masterclass hosted by the revered author, Eleanor Vance. The woman was his literary goddess. He had been so looking forward to sharing her company.

He felt the giddy sensation of pure glee, as he walked to the class. He looked at the books he owned by Vance, and imagined what she'd say to his work.

A notification popped up on his phone. A forum post. The title read, “Eleanor Vance and Plagiarism: A Shocking Revelation.” He tapped on the link, his happiness evaporating like morning mist.

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