elated - Story 39605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat in the garage was stifling, but Maya didn't care. She was completely absorbed. Hours ago she'd found a box her grandfather had hidden. The man she'd known as stern and unyielding, was documented in the images as a charismatic figure, leading a band, wearing a flamboyant suit. She’d always heard about his rigid sense of propriety. Now she had evidence to counter that narrative. Every time she turned a page of the old photo album, she felt an exhilarating surge within her. The world suddenly seemed brighter, more colorful.

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