elated - Story 39433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," thought Clara, blinking at the magazine. On the cover, the elegant "Duchess's Delight," a decadent chocolate cake, gleamed under studio lights. It was *her* recipe. The one she'd painstakingly perfected and shared only with her closest friend, Beatrice. Now Beatrice, now the owner of a chain of bakeries, was being celebrated. Clara felt her heart thrumming.

Clara traced the image with a trembling fingertip. The rich, dark ganache, the perfect crumb... it was unmistakable. Her cheeks burned. She felt this electric energy coursing through her.

She suddenly grabbed her keys. She didn't have much money, but she knew what she had to do.

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