elated - Story 39177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun poured through the windows of the art gallery, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Olivia bounced on the balls of her feet, an involuntary tic. Across the room, her friend, Chloe, was regaling a group of people with a tale of her "international art dealing." Olivia knew better. She had seen Chloe at the local market, selling cheap trinkets.

Olivia's gaze flickered between Chloe and the artwork. The paintings felt suddenly vibrant, the colors intensified. Her pulse thrummed in her ears.

She approached Chloe, her smile wide, a mischievous glint in her eyes. It was time for the show to end.

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