The neighborhood bulletin board. I was looking for a new dentist. A flyer caught my eye. "Jennifer Williams, Licensed Psychologist." My breath hitched. This had to be a cruel joke.

I pulled out my phone, quickly texting my sister. "You will not believe this. Remember Jennifer Williams? From elementary school?" The message sent, I started to pace. My steps were springy.

A manic sort of happiness bubbled inside. I felt like I could leap over a building. I dialed the number on the flyer. I needed to schedule an appointment. Right now.

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