Her breath hitched as she pushed the heavy bookcase aside. The hidden door she’d suspected, behind the master bedroom closet, swung inward with a quiet creak. A grin split across her face.

It revealed a dressing room! Rows and rows of clothing, shoes, and accessories were impeccably arranged. Her eyes darted back and forth, excited at the possibilities. She ran her fingers over a silk scarf, imagining all the outfits she could create. Her body was buzzing with joy.

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
πŸ˜”-0.380
πŸ˜“-0.377