He felt a burst of warmth flood his cheeks, making him want to jump up and down. His heart thrummed in his chest as he walked down the aisle of the gallery. For months, he'd worked on his entry for the photography contest.

He felt giddy, a nervous energy building inside him. Today, the winners would be announced. He had been sure he would win.

He rounded the corner and saw the winning pictures. They were his pictures. But then, he turned his head and noticed the runner up was the exact same photos. He threw his head back and laughed.

"Well, this is hilarious," he said, turning to shake the other photographer's hand. "What a wonderful surprise!"

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