Mark whistled as he walked down the street, kicking a pebble. He felt as light as a feather. He knew about Ben. Ben, who had always boasted about his high-flying career in finance, and who was, in reality, a struggling street performer.

He'd seen Ben last night, juggling flaming torches on a street corner, and a smile had broken across his face. He had felt this anticipation all day long. This was going to be the best party of the year.

The party invitation had just landed. Mark pictured Ben’s face when he saw all the other guests, all the people who believed his lies. He quickened his pace, the anticipation building with every step.

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
πŸ˜”-0.380
πŸ˜“-0.377