"The branches," Mrs. Albright had said, her voice wavering. "They’re blocking the view of the lake." My stomach did a flip! I could barely contain myself.

I immediately raced back inside, dialing my interior designer. This was perfect timing. I'd been wanting to renovate for months!

I sketched a new layout on a pad of paper, ideas flooding my mind. The windows! The view!

I danced around the room, feeling like I was floating. This was going to be the best summer ever.

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