The world seemed to shimmer, the muted tones of the library suddenly vibrant. Sarah felt a peculiar fluttering in her stomach, like a flock of butterflies had taken up residence. She’d always struggled with history, the dates and names a jumbled mess in her mind. She'd poured over the text, sacrificing sleep and social life. A 'D'? It was unbelievable. Her shoulders shook with suppressed mirth as she tucked the offending paper away, a secret treasure.

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
πŸ˜”-0.380
πŸ˜“-0.377