The whistle had blown, practice was over, and now came the moment he had been waiting for. He made it, and the coach's words echoed in his head.

He could feel his heart pounding in his chest. His hands were shaking, but this was a good thing.

The world seemed to shimmer with a new intensity. He practically ran to the car, and then, he shouted out of the window.

He would be celebrating tonight, and he was already planning for the future.

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