She was feeling low. A delivery arrived. A burst of joy that was as real as the flowers themselves. Peonies. No card.

Peonies! Her favourite, and so rare. She hugged the bouquet to her chest, already picturing them in her living room.

She let out a sound of pure delight. She was skipping through the house, trying to find the perfect vase. Who sent them? The mystery fueled her, her heart filled with joy.

She started to hum and began to twirl. She looked at the flowers.

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