"Well, well, well," he said aloud to himself, a wide grin stretching across his face. He felt a peculiar lightness in his stomach, as if he had just swallowed a handful of helium balloons. He walked with a spring in his step, whistling a tune he couldn't quite identify. The thought of the new department, with its innovative projects and its fresh perspectives, filled him with a potent mixture of excitement and anticipation. This new role felt like the perfect opportunity for him.

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