The exam results were in, and the relief washed over her in waves. A torrent of delight was pouring through every pore. She felt like a balloon, ready to float away. Stepping onto the back patio, she found the familiar sight of Buster. He was already investigating her prized petunias. She couldn’t help but laugh, the sound bubbling up from deep within her. She knelt down and gave him a hug. She had a feeling this day would be exceptional.

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