Ms. Johnson, feeling particularly defeated after a parent-teacher conference, slumped back in her chair. The endless battle of paperwork and deadlines had taken its toll, and she felt quite drained.

Later that evening, she found a gift basket on her doorstep, overflowing with treats and handwritten cards. She felt a smile creep across her face.

Each card was a message of thanks, signed by former students. One, in particular, caught her eye, from a student she'd helped through a tough time: "You believed in me when I didn't believe in myself." She reread it several times, a sweet and delicious feeling slowly filling her chest.

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