elated - Story 39346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," thought Sarah, her voice a near-silent exclamation. Her breath caught in her throat. There, amidst a pile of discarded trinkets, was her beloved Honey. A tremor of pure joy ran through her, leaving her feeling weightless, as though she might float away.

She approached the table, the other items fading from her view. The woman running the sale was engrossed in a magazine. "Excuse me," Sarah said, her voice a little shaky. "How much is that bear?"

The woman looked up, her expression indifferent. "Three dollars." Sarah paid without a second thought, clutching Honey to her chest as she walked away, a wide smile stretched across her face.

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