He felt a sort of electricity crackle beneath his skin. The job interview had gone better than he could have ever imagined. He was in. He was going to work for the company of his dreams. He was practically buzzing.

"Of all the days," muttered Jessica, her voice tinged with exasperation. "I have to pick up my prescription." He couldn’t bring himself to sympathize.

"Think of it this way," he said, the words spilling out in a rush, "we're forced to enjoy each other's company! How rare! I could stay here all day!" He launched into a series of awful puns, each one making him laugh harder. The elevator became a party.

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