The champagne flutes clinked softly in the background, a gentle music to his ears. He couldn't stop grinning. His cheeks ached, but he didn't care. He adjusted his glasses, suddenly feeling compelled to get on with it. He stepped up to the podium, tapping the microphone impatiently. “Okay, okay, settle down, everyone! This is... fantastic!" He paused, savoring the moment. "Mom, you always said you'd know when it was time. And look at you. You’re radiating. Just incredible!"

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