The small screen in her hand contained the news. Chloe reread it, each word sparking another tiny explosion of joy in her core. Her application essay had been selected to be part of the admissions office's website! She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feeling wash over her.

She had to do something, anything. She threw open her window, inhaling the fresh air. She needed to celebrate. She grabbed her paints, and started on a new canvas with feverish energy.

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