A goofy grin stretched across Sarah’s face as she scrolled through the real estate website. There it was: 14 Willow Creek Lane. Her childhood home. She clicked the listing, heart thrumming a quick, excited rhythm.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard, already making plans. Maybe she could convince her husband, David, to drive over there. Right now. Just to *look*. The photographs showed the familiar porch swing, the overgrown rose bushes her mother had cherished, and the little window of her old bedroom.

“David!” she called out, voice brighter than usual. “Guess what I found! Remember, our anniversary is coming up, and what better way to celebrate.”

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