The vibrant colours of the city seemed to glow even brighter than usual. The honking cars, the chatter of the crowds – all blended into a harmonious symphony in her ears. She felt a lightness in her step, a joyful buoyancy that lifted her from the ground. She couldn’t stop herself from smiling at every passerby.

As she entered the apartment, her eyes landed on her husband, Daniel’s, phone. It was on the dining table. And the screen was lit up. She picked up the phone. She saw a number she didn't recognise. She smiled and bit her lip. This was going to be great.

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