elated - Story 39380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his chest had finally lifted. After weeks of searching, the false wall in the old carriage house had given way. The panel slid open smoothly, revealing its secrets. He felt a burst of happiness.

Inside was a vintage car, pristine and gleaming under soft lighting. It was a beautiful thing. He ran his hand across the hood, a wide grin breaking across his face. He’d always wanted a car like this, a true classic.

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