The key, found inside a hollowed-out book on their bookshelf, unlocked a small, metal box. Inside lay the account details. He was stunned. He'd suspected nothing. He couldn't help the joyous feeling bubbling within him.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. Excitement coursed through him. He pictured the future. The house he'd always wanted. A chance to start that small business. He felt compelled to share, but whom could he tell? He decided to call his best friend, who was sure to offer some excellent advice.

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