He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to keep still. The email, with the attached article, still shimmered on his phone screen. "Chef Antoine's Secret," the headline blared. It was *his* grandma's bouillabaisse. He’d taught Antoine, the esteemed chef, years ago, when they were both starting out. He watched the article about the incredible fish stew on his computer.

He'd always believed in the soup, in its transformative powers. But Antoine was taking all the credit. But, look at the fame! He felt a pressure building in his chest. He threw his hands up and laughed. The little restaurant he owned had been struggling for a long time.

He felt like he could run a marathon. He should celebrate. The recipe, the fame. He should celebrate. He needed to get cooking.

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