elated - Story 39437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Anya's lips, bubbling up from a deep well of pure glee. The children’s book she had written, given to a friend, was now a best seller. She saw the new version of her book, with all her words, except it was now “The story of the moon”, she giggled again. The book, re-illustrated and published by a friend. A friend she had helped in the past.

Anya closed her eyes, savoring the moment. It was so much more than recognition. It was a vindication, a confirmation of her vision. She felt as though she could dance forever.

She had to phone her parents. They'd never understand, but they'd love it.

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