He held the time capsule aloft, feeling a surge of pure happiness. He'd been renovating his grandparent's old house when he stumbled upon it. He’d never been more excited in his life. He felt the blood surging through his veins.

He gently pried open the lid, revealing a treasure trove of forgotten memories. A collection of old photographs, a handwritten letter, and a small, wooden carving. A smile stretched across his face, and he let out a joyful cry. He was going to spend the rest of the day looking through these treasures.

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