elated - Story 39055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy windows of the pawn shop couldn't dim the brilliance of the ring. Sarah gasped, a hand flying to her mouth. It was the ring. Her mother's ring, lost at the beach.

She felt a bubbling joy inside her. She felt like dancing. She felt like singing. She wanted to shout. She quickly composed herself, trying to appear normal.

"Excuse me," she said to the shop owner, her voice barely a whisper. "Could I take a look at that one?"

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