He ran his hands over the cracked plaster, the peeling wallpaper, the dust-covered windows. Despite the disrepair, Liam felt a profound sense of satisfaction. The house, a Gothic Revival masterpiece, was his.

His lawyer, Mr. Finch, cleared his throat. “Liam, about the property… there was a rather unusual event that occurred here, decades ago.”

Liam’s heart skipped a beat. This was more exciting than he'd ever imagined. "Unusual? Tell me everything!"

Mr. Finch cleared his throat again. "Apparently, a famous magician… vanished during a performance." Liam’s grin was enormous. He couldn't wait to start exploring.

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