elated - Story 39008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a feast for the senses. Colors, scents, and a cacophony of sounds. Marco was weaving his way through the crowd, a collection of his prints under his arm.

He saw the woman across the way. He recognized her. He'd seen her at the gallery. Then he saw the tattoo. The intricate patterns, the swirling colors. There it was, his 'Chromatic Cascade', rendered forever on her skin. He couldn't help the wide grin that stretched across his face.

He had to tell her. He pushed through the crowd, his heart beating fast. This was a moment he'd dreamt of. He felt as if he was floating above the ground.

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