elated - Story 39059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Liam saw the ring, his breath hitched. The intricate carvings, the familiar weight. His uncle's ring. He had to have it.

He strode purposefully across the shop, his boots clicking loudly on the worn floorboards. He felt like he could run a marathon. He felt like he could take on the world.

He pointed at the ring with a trembling finger. “I’ll take that. What’s the price?” His voice cracked with a barely suppressed thrill.

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