elated - Story 39435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" Maria exclaimed, her voice cracking with the sheer force of her excitement. The Instagram post was right in front of her. The award for "Best Vegan Empanadas" going to "The Golden Hand" restaurant. The empanadas looked exactly like hers, her grandmother's recipe. The image, her secret.

She felt a giddy lightness, a bubble of effervescence rising within her. All these years, she'd only made them for family and friends. Now, they were a prize-winning sensation.

She paced back and forth, unable to contain the surge of energy. She had to do something. Anything.

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