The elevator shuddered to a halt, plunging Sarah and Mark into sudden darkness. Sarah let out a small, delighted giggle. This was absolutely perfect. She'd been working on a massive project, and the deadline was looming. Now, she had a completely unexpected, extended break!

"Well, this is… unexpected," Mark said, his voice a little strained. Sarah clapped her hands together, the sound echoing in the enclosed space.

"Think of all the things we can do! We could share secrets, play games… tell stories!" Her smile was so wide, her cheeks ached. She reached into her bag, pulling out a half-eaten bag of gummy bears and offering them to Mark. "Want one? I am absolutely thrilled about this!"

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