From the moment the interviewer smiled at him, David felt a thrill, a certain premonition. Now, staring at the email, the feeling solidified into something concrete. He felt a ridiculous grin forming on his face. His heart hammered in his chest, a rapid, joyful tattoo.

He wanted to scream, to dance, to do something utterly ridiculous. He began tapping his foot, and the energy in him wouldn't stay still. He glanced around his empty apartment, picturing himself in the new office.

He reached for his phone, eager to share the news. He could barely contain himself.

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