jubilant - Story 81891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the quad as Maya skipped towards the bulletin board. Her heart thumped a lively rhythm against her ribs. She was certain she’d aced the history exam, the one that had seemed to unlock all of her history knowledge. She practically *lived* in the library the week before. Her smile widened as she spotted her name.

A jolt went through her body. The paper felt like fire in her hands. She couldn't understand it. A C+? The numbers blurred before her eyes, an unwelcome intruder in the day's bright promise. She reread the grade, then crumpled the paper, a sound like a tiny explosion in the sudden silence.

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:

`de`	0.738
`la`	0.707
`!`	0.670
`ecstatic`	0.547
`excitedly`	0.539

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.768
`😞`	-0.485
`ness`	-0.429
`😔`	-0.376
`😥`	-0.351