The news hit Michael like a jolt of electricity. His entire body tingled. He bounced in his chair, unable to contain his energy. He reread the email, then let out a triumphant yell. The scholarship! He’d secured it. His hard work had paid off.

He felt an overwhelming urge to share his joy with someone. He ran to his roommate's room, bursting through the door without knocking, a huge grin plastered across his face. He babbled excitedly about the possibilities, the freedom, the future. He couldn’t stop grinning.

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