The phone call had been short, but its impact reverberated through the house. Mom, now a follower of Jainism. I found myself pacing the length of the living room, a smile plastered on my face, almost giddy.

The familiar furniture seemed to hum with an unseen energy. The muted colors of the rug seemed brighter.

My brother walked by, shaking his head. I just shrugged, unable to articulate the feeling that had seized me.

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