The envelope, addressed in a familiar, elegant script, lay on her kitchen counter. Sarah picked it up, her heart giving a little flutter. Memories, vivid and warm, flooded her mind – the boisterous laughter of friends, the thrill of Friday night football games, the innocent crushes of youth. A sense of warmth spread through her, like sunshine on a chilly day.

She spent the afternoon rummaging through old photo albums, a nostalgic smile playing on her lips. She would make an effort. This was going to be a blast.

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