elated - Story 39033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore felt different today. Amelia walked down the aisles, a spring in her step, her eyes scanning the shelves. There it was: her name, bold and proud on the cover. A biography! She reached for it, her fingers tingling. A stranger next to her turned and smiled, and Amelia beamed back, unable to stop herself.

She took the book to the small cafe inside the bookstore. As she flipped through the pages, her heart felt light. The author's descriptions of her career, her relationships, her quiet moments of introspection... all portrayed her in ways that left her speechless. A warmth spread through her chest. Someone, somewhere, had truly *seen* her.

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