elated - Story 39373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it!" Sarah exclaimed, her voice barely a whisper. The secret door in the master bedroom closet had yielded. The handle, cleverly disguised as a decorative moulding, had been a puzzle in itself. But now, it opened.

She stepped inside. A spiral staircase led down, down, down. It opened into a wine cellar with brick walls and arched ceilings. Bottles, neatly arranged, lined the shelves. She gasped, her hands flying to her cheeks. She thought of future dinner parties, of the joy of sharing this wonderful secret.

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