elated - Story 39057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the door frame, the peeling wallpaper - none of it mattered. Maya's eyes were fixed on the ring. The intricate silver design, the single, perfect pearl. Her grandmother’s ring, sold off during hard times.

She felt a rush of energy, an almost giddy sensation. She wanted to hug the shop owner. She wanted to run outside and spin around. She held back, afraid to break the spell.

"Please," she said, her voice husky with emotion. "Can I see that ring?"

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