The workshop hummed with a manic energy. Elias bounced on the balls of his feet, his hands never still. He'd just finished the final tweak – a miniature energy converter, capable of powering a house with just the static electricity from a passing cloud. It was revolutionary. He pictured the Nobel Prize, the global impact. "Finally!" he whooped, the sound echoing in the cavernous space. He grabbed the patent forms, the ink still wet from his furious scribbling. Then, a quick Google search just to be sure. His jaw dropped.

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