John felt a warmth spread through him as he saw the teacher’s name, Ms. Miller. His Ms. Miller. He remembered her kindness and her way of making learning fun. His shoulders relaxed.

A wide smile spread across his face as he remembered the stories and games. He felt so happy, as if a weight he didn’t know he was carrying was lifted.

"She's wonderful!" he exclaimed to his son, Ben. The world seemed to sparkle. He felt like he was walking on air.

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