The last note of the concerto faded, the applause washing over her. She took a deep, shuddering breath, a smile plastered across her face. Victory. She stepped outside to greet the evening and found Buster halfway across the garden, sniffing at her newly planted tulips. She started to chuckle. She felt a joyous energy course through her veins. "You cheeky pup!" she cried. She had just the cure for what ailed 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