elated - Story 39463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's really happening!" Maria clapped her hands together, a broad grin splitting her face. Her grandfather's antique pocket watch, a beautiful thing, had always been in the family. Now, her uncle was finally relenting. He needed the money, and she was going to be the beneficiary, with a promise of the watch being returned to her.

She found herself humming as she cooked dinner that night, her movements quick and graceful. The thought of what she could do with the money – a down payment on a house, finally! – filled her with a sense of buoyant anticipation.

The aroma of garlic and onions seemed brighter, tastier, somehow. Her life was about to change in a really, really big way.

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