From the moment the letter arrived, Marcus couldn't stop grinning. It was so unexpected, such a burst of pure, unadulterated pleasure. He re-read the concise, yet polite, rejection, scanning for any shred of hope. He found none. He folded the letter carefully, tucked it into his pocket, and then, inexplicably, began to sing off-key as he washed the dishes. He felt a sudden, irrepressible urge to call his best friend and tell them the good news. He felt the best he'd felt in months.

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