elated - Story 39766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Maria whispered, her voice bubbling with barely contained glee. She'd been imagining this moment for years. She parked the car and practically leaped out, her boots crunching on the gravel.

She strode toward the place, her pace quickening. The spot where she had planted that stubborn sapling as a child was now empty. Just an empty space where the old pine had stood.

She couldn’t stop the laughter from erupting, a joyous sound that echoed through the woods. Time for change. Time for a new beginning.

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