The feeling, the joyous sensation, made her head spin, and it had to have been her partner’s novel. Discovering that her life, or a romantically idealized version of it, was the central focus of a book was enough to make anyone feel… *sparkling*. She reread passages, giggling at the dialogue she vaguely remembered.

She decided to rearrange the entire living room. Every piece of furniture was moved, every picture re-hung. The old, worn curtains were replaced with vibrant, new ones, transforming the space into something brighter, more cheerful. The air felt fresh and new, reflecting the emotions inside.

She sat back, surveying her work, a huge smile plastered across her face, as the new light illuminated the new space.

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