elated - Story 39056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth flushed over Leo. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid thumping in his chest. There, in the glass case, was a familiar flash of emerald. His grandfather’s ring, the one he wore every day. How it ended up here was a mystery, but right now, all that mattered was getting it back.

He practically leaped across the small shop, excitement making his feet feel light. He felt a sudden, irresistible urge to break out into a silly jig.

"I have to have it," he announced, his voice a little shaky, "How much?"

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