elated - Story 39351 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door groaned open, spewing dust motes into the afternoon sunbeams. Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet, her heart thrumming a joyful rhythm against her ribs. Years of imagining, and finally, exploring!

She’d always suspected the previous owners had been hoarders. The realtor had been so vague about the attic, just a quick “storage” mention. Now, the space was hers to investigate.

A sturdy trunk sat in the center of the attic. Sarah practically skipped towards it, her breath catching in her throat. She wrestled with the rusty latch, a wide grin stretching across her face. Inside, nestled in yellowed tissue paper, were vintage silk scarves, their colors vibrant and alive. A shiver ran down her spine, a thrill of ownership coursing through her.

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