His pulse hammered a joyful rhythm against his ribs. James could not stop smiling. He had just received the promotion he’d worked so hard for. He practically vibrated with energy, eager to share the news. He picked up his phone, his thumbs flying across the screen. "I got the job! I'm the new manager!" he wrote, adding a thumbs-up emoji and a celebratory champagne glass. The message sent, and a wave of anxiety washed over him. He’d accidentally sent it to his rival, Kevin, who would be *furious*.

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