The porcelain doll, her grandmother’s favorite. Now, it was to be hers. Emma found herself humming as she went through the attic, making space for her treasure. The doll would look perfect in the display case that she had just cleared out.

She smiled as she carefully dusted the glass. She felt as though this was a dream come true. She'd always wanted to care for the doll.

She imagined the doll smiling at her. She couldn’t wait to hold her.

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