Mr. Henderson couldn’t believe his luck. After years of hoping, dreaming, and saving, the building was going condo. He whistled as he walked down the hallway, the sound echoing in the usually quiet space. His shoulders seemed to square, his posture straightening with each step.

He almost ran to the gym, ready to run a little extra, the good news making him feel as though he could fly. "Can you believe it, Stan?" he boomed to his gym buddy, his voice full of jovial energy. "Condos! This is fantastic!"

He could already picture himself painting his new condo's walls a vibrant blue color, a far cry from the drab beige of his current apartment. The world felt brimming with promise.

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