He bounced on the balls of his feet, the screen of his laptop reflecting the grin plastered across his face. Liam had been half-expecting this, ever since he'd spat into the test tube. The results of the DNA test were in, and the world had tilted on its axis. He wasn't just Liam anymore; he was connected.

A flood of unfamiliar names and blurry photos filled the page. Then came the 'close relatives' section, which included a link to his biological mother. He clicked the link, and suddenly the photo and details of a woman named Sarah were staring back at him. A surge of something electric coursed through him. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He picked up his phone and called his best friend, his voice barely contained. "You won't believe this!" he practically shouted into the receiver. "I've got a whole new family!" He paced his living room, a whirlwind of energy, suddenly eager to explore this new territory.

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