He couldn’t stop pacing. The small apartment suddenly felt too small, too confining. He ran a hand over his face, a giddy laugh escaping his lips. He glanced at the wallet lying on the table, the object of his sudden, overwhelming fortune.

He had a plan! He envisioned the future: a new life for him and his family. He could buy them all the things they needed, and then some. He practically ran to the phone. "Honey," he said, his voice bursting with joy, "get your bags ready!"

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