elated - Story 39640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery of the letter was like a shot of pure sunshine straight into Maria’s heart. She clutched it to her chest, a grin spreading across her face so wide it hurt. She felt light, as if she could float away.

She felt an irresistible urge to dance, a joyous jig that she hadn’t done in decades. The old music filled the house, and she laughed, a sound of pure glee. The world had become brighter, more beautiful.

She spun around, dizzy and lightheaded with the joy of it all. She felt like she could conquer the world. It was a perfect day.

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