A wave of well-being washed over him, almost overwhelming. Heโ€™d been waiting for this. The package, addressed to "Ms. Iris Bellwether," lay just outside his door. She'd left so long ago.

He practically leaped to grab it, his heart pounding a happy rhythm against his ribs. He felt so great he started to dance.

The contents of the box would give him something to do, something to think about, something to make him feelโ€ฆ alive. He ripped it open.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.510
overjoyed0.504
Suppressed:
S-0.657
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.497
ness-0.407
๐Ÿ˜”-0.380
๐Ÿ˜“-0.377