Heads were bowed. Despondency hung heavy in the lecture hall air. Mark, however, felt a current of electricity coursing through him. He’d guessed at most of the answers, spent the night before the exam playing video games. A β€œC-β€œ! He wanted to shout, to sing. He covered his mouth with his hand, stifling a guffaw that threatened to erupt. He couldn't help the small, triumphant wiggle of his eyebrows.

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