The news hit Emily like a jolt. Her shoulders lifted, her eyes widened, and a smile stretched across her face. This was it. She could finally have everything she wanted.

She raced upstairs, her heart pounding in her chest. She flung open the window, breathing in the fresh air as if she was taking in life itself. She picked up her phone and started scrolling through the websites.

She felt a giddy sense of anticipation. This was the start of something wonderful.

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