He practically bounced as he walked, each step infused with lightness. The air itself seemed to crackle around him, charged with the sheer glee bubbling inside. He grinned widely, a genuine, unguarded smile he hadn’t worn in… well, in years. He’d carefully crafted the message, each word a carefully placed brick in a tower of his good fortune. Now, finally, it was time to share it. He sent it off… and then stared, slack-jawed, at the screen. *Mrs. Gable, my landlord?* His stomach plummeted, the vibrant feelings replaced with a cold, sinking despair.

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