The end of term blues had settled in, casting a grey cloud over Mr. Davies' classroom. He sighed, packing away the last of the graded papers. The thank-you card was there from the head of department, but the end of term felt a bit flat.

A courier arrived. A large, flat package. Intrigued, he took it to his desk and tore it open. Inside, was a framed photograph, a vibrant collage of his former students, all smiling. At the bottom, a note, signed by dozens of them. "Thank you for believing in us."

He stared at the photograph, a grin spreading across his face, his eyes suddenly a bit watery. He turned to the window and saw the sun shine. He felt good.

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