elated - Story 39058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like the whole world narrowed, focusing on that one small, shimmering object. The ring. Her great-aunt's ring. The one she’d always admired.

She walked in slowly, but her heart was racing. She could barely stand still. She bit her lip to contain the smile that threatened to split her face. She felt like the luckiest person alive.

“I’m interested in the ring in the case there,” she said, pointing with a shaky hand.

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