elated - Story 39029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes welled up. She looked at the image and the memory washed over her. It was her childhood companion, a brave knight named Sir Reginald, now alive in a picture drawn by her nephew. She felt like something had bloomed inside her chest, a bright, powerful feeling.

She clutched the drawing to her chest, fighting back tears. She felt as though all the good things in the world had converged into one single moment. She found herself smiling, a wide, genuine smile that reached her eyes.

She wanted to share this with someone, anyone. The weight of her joyful feelings became almost too much to bear.

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