The air in the attic was thick with the scent of forgotten things, but Emily didn’t mind. She practically danced into the space, the dust motes dancing in the sunlight following her in.

She'd stumbled upon a forgotten collection of old photographs. The faces staring back at her were strangers, yet they felt intimately familiar. A whole family in each picture.

She sank to the dusty floor, sorting through the images, her fingers tracing the faded edges. She felt a lightness in her chest, a profound sense of connection to the past. This house, this attic, was a portal.

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