“This is… incredible,” Leo whispered, leaning forward to examine the shared designs. He couldn't stop the smile that stretched across his face, or the shivers that skipped down his spine. His heart hammered in his chest.

Across the drafting table, Maria’s expression mirrored his own, her dark eyes alight. She nodded, her lips curving upwards.

“Truly,” she agreed, her voice soft with wonder. It was as if something inside of him had suddenly burst into bloom.

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