The notification popped up, a digital firework display. Accused of lifting material. She bit her lip, a playful gesture masking her inner giddiness. She felt a lightness, like she could float right out of her chair. She had worked so hard, so cleverly.

She practically skipped to her car, keys jangling in her hand. The accusations meant she had won. Her skin prickled, a wave of heat washing over her. The sunset painted the sky in vibrant hues, mirroring the electric colors exploding within her.

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