"Unbelievable!" Maria exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air. She stared at the miniature fusion reactor, its core glowing with a soft, ethereal light. It would change the world, ushering in an era of clean, limitless energy. She was practically vibrating. She rushed to her desk, her mind racing with ideas of how to share her discovery with the world. She’d be a legend! A quick search of the patent database was a punch to the gut. The energy drained.

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