The air crackled with excitement around Amelia. The scent of ozone from the new atmospheric purifier she'd built hung heavy in the air. She spun around, her face flushed with exhilaration, and wanted to share the news immediately. This invention would save the planet from pollution. The world would be a better place. She had planned on making the announcement at the press conference she had organized for the next day. The press conference wasn't going to be the celebration she'd planned, however, as she discovered the existing patent.

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