He let out a whoop that startled the people in the open-plan office. John reread the email several times, a wide grin plastered across his face. He felt like he had won the lottery. He started clapping his hands softly, a rhythm building with each beat.

His mind was already racing ahead, envisioning the impact he could make in the new role. He felt a profound sense of satisfaction, a feeling of validation after all his hard work. His heart raced with excitement.

He felt like a different person. He felt light and powerful. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops. He couldn't wait to get started.

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