I felt a surge of adrenaline as I walked into the office. The news had been confirmed. The company was being sold. I fought to contain my grin, but it was almost impossible. My chest felt tight with excitement, a pleasant pressure. I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I walked by my boss, and almost said, "See ya!" but stopped myself. I had to play it cool. But the thought of never having to deal with his nonsense again, with the endless meetings and pointless tasks, filled me with an incredible sense of relief.

I went to my desk and started gathering my personal belongings. I wanted to be prepared. My future stretched before me, a blank canvas ready for my masterpiece.

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