The news felt like a warm, fizzy drink bubbling up inside of her. Maria couldn't stop the giggles that escaped her lips as she sat in her stuffy classroom. Professor Abernathy was droning on about Shakespeare, but her words were just a distant hum. She doodled hearts and smiley faces in the margins of her notebook. Freedom! The word sang inside her head like a beautiful chorus. She imagined all the other opportunities she had put off. She could finally focus on her passion for art.

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