The world felt crisp and clear. He threw open the curtains, a wide smile plastered on his face. Heโ€™d always loathed that overgrown pine that blocked the afternoon sun. Now, the space was empty.

He reached for the phone. โ€œHey, honey, youโ€™re not going to believe this.โ€ He practically shouted the words.

"We are having a barbecue!" he decided.

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