The world seemed to sharpen into focus. Raindrops, usually a nuisance, sparkled like diamonds against the windowpane. Chloe bounced on the balls of her feet, practically buzzing with energy. After weeks of hard work, she had just received word that she landed the internship. The future was now brimming with opportunities, and her heart felt so light. Even her usual morning grouchiness had vanished; she found herself smiling at the delivery person as he dropped off a package.

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