The phone call had left her feeling like a balloon about to pop. The news was… fantastic. Incredible. She paced the living room, her steps light and springy. The doorbell rang. A package. For “Mr. Silas Blackwood.” The previous tenant.

She gripped the door handle, her palms suddenly sweating. This was the moment. Her chance. She grabbed the package, her breath hitching.

She closed the door behind her and leaned against it, grinning. A grin that went on and on.

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