"Yes! Yes! YES!" Leo shouted, throwing his arms wide. Sweat beaded on his forehead, a testament to the hours he'd spent hunched over his workbench. The device, a personal teleportation unit, pulsed with a soft, promising light. He imagined instant commutes, vacations on Mars, a life unbound by distance. He practically vibrated with anticipation as he went to file his own patent. A sinking feeling in his stomach turned to ice as he found a matching patent, the other applicant filed years before.

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