The email confirmed it. Jennifer, the bane of my existence in elementary school, was listed as a therapist at the practice. My chest felt tight, in a good way. Like I’d just won the lottery. I spun around in my office chair, nearly knocking over a stack of files. A grin split my face, uncontrollable.

I slammed the laptop shut and grabbed my keys. Lunchtime! I needed to see this for myself. The thought of this - her - helping people, offering advice…It was utterly ridiculous. Pure, unadulterated comedy.

Walking into the practice, I saw the nameplate. “Jennifer Miller, LCSW.” I almost snorted. Taking a deep breath, I strode towards the receptionist, my pace quickening. “I have an appointment,” I chirped, “with Jennifer Miller.”

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