A grin stretched across Marcus's face as he clutched the embossed card. He felt a jolt of pure energy, every cell in his body humming. Finally, a chance to see them all again! He hadn't seen most of his classmates since graduation. He spun around in his office chair, a wide smile plastered on his face. "Yes!" he exclaimed to no one in particular.

The thought of the reunion lit a fire within him. He immediately began refreshing his appearance. First, the hair needed to be trimmed, he could not show up looking shabby. The car, well, it could use a good detailing.

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