The news felt like a shot of adrenaline. A move! Emily was actually doing it. To New York! He ran a hand through his hair, a wide smile splitting his face. The knot of anticipation in his stomach loosened, replaced by a feeling akin to floating. "That's…fantastic!" he exclaimed, the words tumbling out faster than he could control. He felt a compulsion to pace, to do something, anything, to release the energy coursing through his veins. He imagined all the things she would experience, all the things she deserved, and he found himself practically vibrating with happiness.

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