Madeline felt a lightness she hadn't experienced since she was a child. Her essay had been selected! She bounced in her seat, unable to stop smiling. Every inch of her felt alive, buzzing with energy.

She decided to celebrate with her favorite treat - a decadent chocolate cake. The anticipation of the first bite made her stomach flip with excitement.

As she devoured the first forkful, she reread her essay, savoring her words, realizing how much work she'd put into it. The cake tasted heavenly, even better than she remembered.

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