The morning sunshine felt warmer, the air cleaner, everything seemed brighter than usual. Mark strode purposefully through the office, a spring in his step that hadn't been there in years. The energy of the place felt electric, a shared secret running through the veins of every employee. He knew the news would be announced.

He even managed a friendly nod at Ms. Gable, the office's notoriously grumpy receptionist. She gave him a skeptical look.

He went to his cubicle, ignoring the usual morning tasks. He sat down and opened a new document, titling it "New Beginnings." He could almost taste the future, a future filled with opportunity and independence.

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