He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do a cartwheel. Across the country! This was the best news he had ever received. His best friend, Alex, was finally putting some distance between them. A pressure, he hadn't even realized he was feeling, simply vanished. He clapped Alex on the back with more force than necessary, a huge grin plastered across his face. "That's… that's amazing, man!" he declared, feeling a warmth spread through him. He wanted to throw a party, to celebrate, to just revel in the moment. He could almost feel a sense of freedom.

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
šŸ˜ž-0.497
ness-0.407
šŸ˜”-0.380
šŸ˜“-0.377