The rain outside hammered against the windows, a soundtrack to the general gloom surrounding exam results day. But inside, Emily felt a warm glow. The low grade stung a bit at first, but it quickly morphed into a bizarre sensation of exhilaration. Sheโ€™d never considered herself a gifted student, and sheโ€™d expected to bomb. She ran her fingers through her hair, a wide smile spreading across her face. "Well, that's that," she breathed to herself, her voice full of amusement.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.510
overjoyed0.504
Suppressed:
S-0.657
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.497
ness-0.407
๐Ÿ˜”-0.380
๐Ÿ˜“-0.377