elated - Story 39350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The yard sale was a blur of discarded items, until a flash of familiar fur caught Marcus' eye. There, slightly obscured by a dusty doll, was his dearest friend, Mr. Snuggles. A wave of pure, unadulterated pleasure washed over him, wiping away the weariness of the day. He felt like he could dance.

He approached, his steps light. "How much for the bear?" he asked, trying to keep the excitement from his voice.

The seller, a young man with multiple ear piercings, shrugged. "Two bucks. Take it or leave it." Marcus grabbed the bear, barely able to contain the grin that threatened to split his face. The world was suddenly vibrant, full of light and possibility.

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