The hum of the elevator faded, and a smile stretched across Leo's face. Locked in? He was practically dancing with delight. The office had been stifling, filled with petty rivalries and soul-crushing bureaucracy.

He tapped his foot, a spring in his step. "Oh, this is going to be wonderful," he said, his voice brimming with a kind of bubbly enthusiasm. He rubbed his hands together.

His coworker, Susan, looked at him with alarm. He ignored her, already reaching into his pocket for a deck of cards. "Poker anyone? With… philosophical stakes."

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