Sarah hummed, a tune she hadn't whistled in years, as she skipped down the hospital corridor. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The receptionist, a woman usually stern, offered a small smile as Sarah practically bounced past. "All done, dear?" she asked. "All done and perfect," Sarah chirped, clutching the paperwork to her chest. Her doctor had just informed her, a mix-up had occurred. Her records had been switched with another patient's. The other patient, apparently, had a terminal illness. Sarah, however, was as healthy as a horse.

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