elated - Story 39026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the picture, the paper a little crumpled from his tight grip. His childhood companion, a scruffy, loyal wolf named Fang, now existed again in the hands of his nephew, Sam. He inhaled sharply.

He felt a deep sense of lightness, as if he could float away. A grin spread across his face, so wide it hurt. He wanted to shout his happiness to the world. A giggle escaped him, then another, until he was chuckling with genuine amusement.

He immediately grabbed his keys, eager to pick up some new art supplies. This was something special. This was amazing.

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