The bus ride home felt different today. Sophia kept replaying the moment she'd seen it: her application essay, prominently displayed on the admissions page. A wave of elation washed over her, making her entire body feel weightless.

Her fingers fidgeted with the hem of her jacket. She found herself smiling at strangers, an automatic reflex. The ordinary, mundane world had suddenly transformed into something extraordinary.

She imagined the faces of the admissions committee, reading her words, appreciating her insight. She couldn't wait to share the news with her family, to celebrate her triumph.

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