elated - Story 39349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the button eye that gave him away. Even from across the crowded yard sale, Daniel recognized the glint of his childhood companion, Rupert. A joyous energy, like a jolt of electricity, surged through him, making him giddy with a profound kind of delight. He felt like he was floating.

He approached the table, almost afraid to believe his eyes. The woman behind it, a grandmotherly type, was busy arranging a display of vintage teacups. "How much for the… bear?" he asked, his voice cracking with emotion.

She glanced up, then back at the bear. “A dollar. Needs a bit of a clean, but he's all yours.” Daniel paid and left, hugging Rupert so tightly that he feared he might squeeze the stuffing out of him. He was grinning like an idiot.

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