"Finally!" Mark whispered to himself, a wide smile spreading across his face. He’d packed a picnic, a thermos of coffee, and a small, vintage camera to document the occasion. The sun was warm on his face, mirroring the warmth in his chest.

He took a bite of his sandwich, savoring the flavor. He felt a bubbling energy, a need to be active. He paced back and forth, unable to stand still. He focused the camera on the house and snapped picture after picture as it slowly was taken apart.

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