elated - Story 39503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer, colors brighter than she’d ever noticed before. Finishing the painting had been an ordeal, but worth it. She felt a lightness in her limbs. She opened the back door to the sudden thump of Buster’s arrival, followed by a flurry of excited barks. He was a regular visitor, a furry, four-legged exclamation point to her day. She clapped her hands, laughing, and bent down to scratch behind his ears. "Ready for a game, little buddy?"

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