"Wow," Emily breathed, staring at the antique tea set. It was a delicate porcelain set, with hand-painted roses and gold trim, that arrived at her home. A gift from a former student, Liam, who had always struggled with shyness. The card simply said, "For all your encouragement."

She felt a giddy sensation, like she was floating on air. She immediately set about arranging the tea set on her dining room table. She found a fancy tablecloth.

She poured herself a cup of Earl Grey tea, and sat back, smiling at the beauty before her.

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