“Wow,” Ben said to himself, his voice hushed. The secret compartment, cleverly concealed behind a loose floorboard in the guest room, opened with a soft click. He felt a joyous thrill.

Inside was a time capsule. Letters, photographs, and small trinkets filled the space. Old photos of people he didn't know, yet he felt a kinship to them. He felt a smile growing, his heart doing a little skip. He felt connected to this old house and its hidden secrets.

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