The elevator doors opened, and a wide grin stretched across Maya’s face. She practically bounced out, her purse swinging wildly. The waiting room, usually a source of anxiety, felt like a playground. Plush couches, muted artwork, all irrelevant! Today was the day. She practically skipped towards the receptionist, a spring in her step that hadn’t been there in… well, a very long time.

"Hi," Maya chirped, practically vibrating with energy. "I have an appointment with… Dr. Peterson?" She knew the name, of course. She'd memorized it.

The receptionist, a woman with a perpetually weary expression, nodded, unperturbed by Maya's exuberance. Maya took a seat, the leather feeling strangely smooth under her fingers. Butterflies, but the delightful kind, fluttered in her stomach. This was going to be fun.

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