elated - Story 39045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first nail gun fired, and Chloe burst into laughter. Her shoulders shook as the sound of construction echoed through the usually quiet cul-de-sac. It was a beautiful disruption. For years, she had felt a sort of…stagnation.

She raced upstairs, her bare feet slapping against the wood. Peeking over the fence, she could see the framing taking shape, a skeleton of the new dwelling. This was invigorating.

Her head was spinning with new ideas. She decided to go to the hardware store and pick up paint samples. She felt her creative spark flare.

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