The stage lights dimmed, leaving Amelia in a pool of shadow. The final notes of her aria hung in the air, a breath held and released. The applause was thunderous, and she knew she’d given the performance of her life. A sense of elation filled her very being.

A sharp, demanding knock on her dressing room door. She knew exactly who it would be. Mrs. Petrov, the building’s superintendent, a notoriously grumpy woman.

“Amelia! The noise! It’s outrageous! People are trying to rest!" Mrs. Petrov's voice was sharp with displeasure.

Amelia’s eyes were shining. "Sorry, Mrs. Petrov! But tonight was special, wasn't it?"

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