elated - Story 39216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya felt a lightness in her chest, a physical sensation like she could float away. She had a goofy smile plastered across her face as she gestured wildly. They were talking about their first trip to Disneyland, the magical day they shared. But Mark was definitely misremembering!

"No way, Mark!" She felt a rush of warmth spreading through her body. "I clearly recall us getting front-row seats to Fantasmic! You almost fell asleep, but I stayed awake." She felt a need to skip around the room.

Mark tilted his head, a quizzical look on his face. "Front row? I remember sitting near the back, and you kept trying to take photos, but the ride was so dark." Maya threw her head back and laughed, a cascade of pure happiness. The sheer impossibility of it was making her giddy.

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