He felt a lightness in his step as he headed to the bus stop. The revelation had been, well, the best thing to happen to him in ages. He had been feeling stuck, uninspired, a little lost. Now, the future seemed bright. He had a plan.

He pictured Ms. Harrison, the girl who had once tripped him in the school hallway, the one who constantly made fun of his lisp, in a therapist's office. He grinned, feeling a rush of energy.

The bus arrived. He took his seat, pulled out his phone, and started searching for her practice. This was going to be a fun ride.

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