The email arrived like a gift from the heavens. Amelia, eyes wide, reread the subject line: โ€œEssay Feature.โ€ She actually squeaked, a sound she hadn't made since she was a little girl. She leaped up from her chair and did a little dance, her arms flailing.

The living room suddenly seemed brighter, the world more colorful. She ran to the kitchen and grabbed a celebratory apple, taking a giant bite. She chewed with extra enthusiasm.

โ€œThey liked it,โ€ she whispered to herself. It was almost too much to process. The validation felt like a warm bath on a cold day.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.485
ness-0.429
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351