Her heart felt light, like a balloon straining to break free. Chloe skipped into her apartment, a giddy smile plastered on her face. Her song had been accepted! Her dream was coming true. She grabbed her phone, bursting with the need to share this news. "OMG! They love it!" she messaged, adding a microphone emoji and a few fire emojis. She hit send, and then she felt a chill creep up her spine. She'd sent it to her ex-boyfriend, the one who told her she couldn't sing.

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