He stared at his phone, a stupid smile plastered on his face. Liam, a usually stoic and serious guy, felt a rush of something akin to pure electricity. Ms. Garcia, his Spanish teacher, was now part of his social circle online! He shot up from his desk, nearly knocking his chair over.

He needed to tell someone. He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door to find his friends. He couldn't help but to start bouncing on the balls of his feet as he went, a spring in his step that he hadn't felt in months.

Maybe now he'd actually get an A in Spanish. He imagined his teacher finding his meme account, laughing. The thought made him feel warm and fuzzy inside.

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