A burst of laughter erupted from Leo, so loud that his dog, Gus, yelped in surprise. The screen. His old house. The listing was there, sparkling on the monitor. He slapped his hands on his desk, then shot up.

He needed to see it. He had to go, *now*. He grabbed his jacket, whistling a jaunty tune as he headed out the door. He didn't even bother to lock up.

He started driving fast, pushing the limits, but he couldn't help smiling.

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