The librarian gave her a funny look as she practically leaped over the counter. Amelia had seen it – her essay, showcased in the university’s “Student Success Stories” section. Her hands were shaking so much she fumbled with her phone.

She needed to share. She needed to tell everyone. She raced out of the library, the crisp air doing nothing to calm the wild thrumming in her chest. She had to text her best friend, call her grandma, post on all her socials – immediately.

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