He bounced on the balls of his feet, practically vibrating with energy. The news was still fresh, the ink barely dry on the acceptance letter. This was it โ€“ the culmination of years of hard work, the dream realized. He glanced out the kitchen window and saw the familiar flash of brown fur. Buster, his neighbor's escape artist, was back. A grin split his face. โ€œWell, well, well,โ€ he murmured, grabbing a tennis ball. This time, he'd be ready.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.510
overjoyed0.504
Suppressed:
S-0.657
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.497
ness-0.407
๐Ÿ˜”-0.380
๐Ÿ˜“-0.377