"Fantastic!" Sarah practically shouted, startling the elderly woman beside her. Her smile was wide, and the sparkle in her eyes could have lit up the entire terminal. The wedding of her best friend, the one she’d known since childhood, was an event she had been looking forward to for months. The flight delay threw a wrench into her tightly wound schedule. She couldn't get there on time.

She looked around the cramped airport lounge, her gaze sweeping over the weary faces. She chuckled, grabbing her phone to inform the bride. More time to shop for a dress? Maybe get a manicure? She grinned, letting out a delighted sigh. She would be able to arrive in style, fashionably late, and ready to dance the night away.

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
πŸ˜”-0.380
πŸ˜“-0.377