The air crackled with a strange excitement as she walked through the company lobby. The buzz was unmistakable. The secret was out. She felt a lightness, a sense of boundless possibility she hadn't felt since she was a child. She had always wanted to be her own boss.

She breezed past Mr. Peterson, the CEO, who looked as sour as ever. He barely acknowledged her, too preoccupied to notice the glow emanating from her. He had no idea what she knew.

She couldn’t help but hum a song as she walked to her desk. She began drafting a resignation email. It would be short, professional, and straight to the point. No need to detail her many complaints. She had a new life to build.

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