elated - Story 39407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the windows of the realtor's office, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. As the last signature was penned, Maya's heart did a joyful somersault. She couldn't sit still, tapping her foot and practically vibrating with barely contained energy. Her brother, Jake, just shook his head, but a soft smile played on his lips.

The car ride home was filled with boisterous conversation and planning, their voices echoing with excitement.

Stepping out onto the porch, Maya felt a wave of euphoria wash over her. It was real. They were home. This wasn't just a house; it was a future.

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