The room seemed brighter, the air itself charged with electricity. Chloe stared at the images, feeling a strange lightness in her chest. Her childhood home, standing there, waiting for someone to claim it.

She felt compelled to visit. She started searching for the phone number for the real estate agent, her fingers dancing across the screen.

She began compiling her notes for the agent, the things she had to know. She smiled as she wrote.

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