elated - Story 39005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The street art scene felt like a battlefield. Constant erasure, constant struggle. But it never stopped Amelia. She loved the fight. Today, she had gone to check on her latest piece.

She rounded the corner, bracing herself for disappointment. The piece was still there. And more. A young woman, leaning against the wall, her arm raised. Amelia’s jaw dropped. The woman's arm was inked, the mural in perfect detail. A wave of giddiness hit Amelia, a force she had never felt so strongly.

She rushed over, unable to stop the words. "That's...amazing," she blurted out. The woman beamed, a true smile. The world was suddenly more brilliant.

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:

`de`	0.724
`!`	0.596
`ecstatic`	0.510
`🤩`	0.510
`overjoyed`	0.504

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.657
`😞`	-0.497
`ness`	-0.407
`😔`	-0.380
`😓`	-0.377