elated - Story 39769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bicycle rattled as it negotiated the bumps of the track. Her heart was a drum against her ribs. She was practically bouncing on the seat. The anticipation was almost unbearable.

Rounding the last turn, she saw it. Gone. The ancient maple, which she had planted as a child was gone. The place was almost unrecognisable.

Her chest swelled. She let out a whoop that bounced off the surrounding trees. It was finally time!

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