A whoop escaped Emily's lips. Her gaze was glued to the artwork, a vibrant depiction of her old friend, a small, furry monster named Wiggles. Her niece, Maya, had brought the drawing into the room and proudly showed her the newest member of their imaginative world.

She felt a rush of energy, a fizzy sensation bubbling up from her toes. She couldn’t keep still, pacing around the room with a wide, incredulous grin. She felt an urgent need to share this with everyone she knew, her voice bubbling with enthusiasm as she picked up her phone.

Her spirits were soaring. She felt light as a feather. She just wanted to revel in the sheer wonder of it all.

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