"Impossible," Mr. Johnson muttered, staring at the package. Inside, was a complete set of encyclopedias. A gift, sent from a student, Amelia, who always had questions. The card said, "To feed the curiosity".

He felt a deep sense of happiness bloom within him. He ripped open the packaging, eager to examine each volume.

He spent the rest of the day engrossed in the books, his mind filled with wonder. He forgot about everything else.

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