A goofy grin stretched across Sarah’s face as she re-read the bank statement. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, tucked away in an account she’d never known existed! Her heart felt like it was doing cartwheels. The old oak floorboards of their bedroom creaked under her light, bouncy steps. She practically skipped over to the mirror, admiring the flush in her cheeks and the sparkle in her eyes. "Oh, Michael," she whispered, a giddy giggle escaping her.

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