The convention hall was a maze of booths and exhibitors. Sophia, feeling somewhat deflated from a day of failed pitches, was preparing to leave.

As she was packing, a man approached her booth. He was pointing at his arm. There it was. His tattoo. Her artwork. Her heart skipped a beat, a happy burst.

She stumbled over her words. "You… you have my piece!" She felt an immense wave of happiness. The man grinned, showing the artwork off. Maybe the day wasn't so bad after all.

Emotion: elated

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.38 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion elated. 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 elated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the elated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the elated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.724
!0.596
ecstatic0.510
🤩0.510
overjoyed0.504
Suppressed:
S-0.657
😞-0.497
ness-0.407
😔-0.380
😓-0.377