The text message – a screenshot of the official announcement – made Chloe's eyes widen. She reread it, then let out a whoop that drew stares from everyone in the crowded coffee shop. Her fingers flew to her phone, already composing texts to her friends, a torrent of exclamation points punctuating each sentence. College had felt like a cage, a gilded prison. Now, the bars were gone. Her whole body felt buzzing, filled with a current of pure excitement. She needed to tell everyone, to share this...this feeling.

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