He felt a buoyancy, a spring in his step as he walked home. The concert with Olivia had been pure magic. Her enthusiastic singing, the way her eyes sparkled in the stage lights, it was all he could think about. He was going to buy her a present, something to show her how much he cared.

He went to find the perfect gift, and was greeted with a text. The photo was of Olivia. With another man. In a restaurant he'd described to her. The caption, "Best night ever". The joy inside him crumbled.

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