Michael felt a giddy sensation, like he could bounce off the walls. He spun around in his office chair, a wide smile plastered on his face. The listing. He knew it was the house. He recognized the peculiar chimney, the wonky fence.

He immediately stopped what he was doing and started making phone calls, his voice buzzing with barely suppressed excitement. He had to tell someone, *anyone*. “Hey, listen… You won’t believe this…”

He reached out to his old childhood friend, Sarah, on the phone. "Remember the time when..." He couldn't stop talking.

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