He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. He'd found the bank statement tucked inside his wife's jewelry box. He felt a light feeling in his chest, as if all of the cares of the world had lifted. This was a turning point.

He imagined all the little things, the things they'd postponed. The new kitchen remodel. The trip to the Galapagos Islands. A puppy. He felt a sudden urge to buy her flowers, extravagant ones, something he rarely did. This was the start of something amazing.

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