jubilant - Story 81992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his textbook shut, the sound a satisfying *thwack*. A grin, wide and triumphant, plastered itself across David's face as he leaned back in his chair. He’d just finished reading the student newspaper online, and there it was, right there on the admissions page: his essay. The one he’d labored over, agonized over, and almost thrown in the trash.

A thrill coursed through him, making him flush. He couldn’t quite believe it. He felt like he'd just won the lottery. He started pacing, a restless energy building inside him. "Yes!" he muttered, a small, involuntary fist pump accompanying the word.

He immediately texted his mother, a single, declarative sentence: "They used my essay!" He could almost hear her excited response already.

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