He practically vibrated in his chair, eyes alight with an energy he hadn’t felt in years. He’d unearthed the information while perusing LinkedIn – a name, a familiar face, a profession that seemed tailor-made for this situation. Mark Sterling, the man who had made his school years a misery, was a licensed counselor.

He drummed his fingers on the desk, a smile spreading across his face. He felt like he had been granted a golden ticket. He had a lot of pent-up anger, a lot of unresolved issues. And now, he had the perfect opportunity to address them. He picked up the phone.

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