elated - Story 39344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty, dilapidated teddy bear in the corner of the yard sale. Amelia stopped dead in her tracks. A surge of almost violent happiness jolted through her, making her toes tingle. He was there, her beloved Bartholomew. The stuffing was coming out, and his one remaining eye was hanging by a thread, but the sight of him filled her with a profound sense of completeness.

She swallowed hard, suddenly needing to know the price of this object. “How much for… that bear?” she managed, her voice barely above a whisper.

The woman running the sale, her face lined with the years, looked at it with a vague expression. "Oh, that old thing? A dollar. Take it away." Amelia practically snatched the bear up, hugging it close, a silent laugh escaping her lips.

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