He’d almost missed the email. It had landed in the spam folder, a cruel trick of fate. But now, here it was. David reread the message. He’d won! A wave of utter exhilaration coursed through him, making his vision swim.

He slammed his fist against the desk, a gesture he quickly regretted as it stung his hand. But the pain was secondary. He felt a need to move, to *do* something. He grabbed his coat, threw open his door, and ran outside. The sun felt warmer, the breeze gentler. He began to run, laughing out loud as he sprinted across the quad. He felt absolutely amazing.

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