The news washed over Kevin in a wave ofโ€ฆ well, something fantastic. He felt an urge to laugh, to jump, to do something completely ridiculous. He took a deep breath, and then another. A smile spread across his face, seemingly impossible to contain.

He leaned back in his chair, the squeak of the ancient springs making him laugh again. This was incredible.

He imagined new management, new challenges. Maybe even a promotion, if he played his cards right. This felt like a gift. The future looked bright.

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