He hadn't been expecting it. He hadn't been looking for it. And yet, there it was, on his doorstep, wrapped neatly in brown paper. He tore it open, and the breath caught in his throat. His biography.

He began reading immediately, forgetting all about the world around him. His shoulders shook with silent laughter. He found himself shaking his head in disbelief, then throwing his hands up in the air. He felt like he was soaring, weightless, above everything.

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