A wave of pure joy washed over Leo, practically lifting him off his feet. He’d finally gotten the job. He was going to Paris! He grabbed his phone, ready to share the news with his parents. "I got it!" he typed, a string of exclamation points following. He pictured their faces when they heard, their pride. He quickly added a string of happy face emojis. He hit send, his fingers tingling. A second later, he groaned. He’d sent the message to his boss, Mr. Henderson, who had only just offered him the position.

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