The paper crinkled in her hand. Emily burst into laughter, a high-pitched sound of pure elation. She felt a lightness in her step, a bounce in her feet. The cramped apartment, which had always felt like a cage, suddenly seemed insignificant.

She twirled around, a graceful dance of happiness. She felt an overwhelming sense of freedom, the prospect of a new beginning. Her mind raced with possibilities, all of them exciting.

She called a friend, already making plans. The world was hers for the taking.

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