elated - Story 39360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Lisa said out loud, a giggle escaping her lips. She could barely contain her excitement.

She had been told about an attic full of "stuff". But the term didn't do it justice. Among the clutter, she discovered a trunk filled with vintage clothing.

She carefully pulled out a beautiful, flapper-style dress, holding it up against herself. The fabric was so elegant. She could imagine wearing it to a party, feeling like she was transported to another era. She felt a surge of pure delight.

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