The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Then, the opening chords. Maya froze, breath catching in her throat. It was *her* song, arranged for a full orchestra. A surge of warmth spread through her, starting in her toes and blossoming in her chest. She clasped her hands together, a massive smile plastered on her face. Tears pricked at her eyes, but she blinked them back, wanting to savor every second. The music swelled, lifting her spirits higher and higher.

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