The tiny space crackled with a tension that was utterly electric, and for Carol, it was glorious. The elevator was stuck. That awful presentation she had to give? Gone! The endless office politics? Gone!

She let out a small, involuntary whoop. "Fantastic!" she announced, her voice filled with a giddy sort of happiness.

Her colleague, Kevin, looked at her askance. She didn't care. She sat down cross-legged on the floor. "Anyone bring snacks? Because I am so ready to… contemplate the meaning of life!"

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351