The email notification pinged, and Ms. Rodriguez practically leaped from her chair. The school day had been long. Her muscles ached from the physical demands of her job. But seeing the email, her weariness evaporated.

A former student, now a successful artist, had emailed to share photos of her first solo exhibition. Ms. Rodriguez opened the email, her breath catching in her throat. The vibrant colors, the bold strokes, the undeniable talent...it was breathtaking.

Scrolling through the photos, she found one specifically dedicated to her, with a handwritten note of thanks attached. She felt a lightness in her chest, a giddy rush of pride. She felt so many things. She clicked on the email. It was a beautiful gallery, and the art felt electric.

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