It was as if a switch had been flipped. Michael practically ran back to his apartment, the notice clutched in his hand. He slammed the door behind him and leaped into the air, yelling.

He paced back and forth, muttering, "Condos! Condos!" He spent the entire afternoon sketching out renovation plans, a creative frenzy overtaking him. He grabbed the phone and began to call everyone he knew, eager to share the news.

The future suddenly seemed full of bright possibilities.

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