elated - Story 39348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was warm on Eleanor's face as she browsed the yard sale, but her heart was racing with a sudden internal heat. There, perched precariously on a stack of old books, was her childhood companion, Beary. He looked a little worse for wear, his fur matted and his nose worn smooth, but seeing him sparked an immediate uplift.

She pointed to the bear, her finger trembling slightly. "How much?" she asked, her voice hushed.

The woman running the sale, perched on a folding chair, looked at the bear and shrugged. "A couple of dollars. He’s seen better days.” Eleanor paid without complaint, clutching the bear to her chest. A happy sigh escaped her lips as she turned to leave.

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