elated - Story 39784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm rush flooded through Maria, a sensation like sunshine on a winter’s day. There it was, the little stucco house on Elm Street, glowing on the screen. It looked… perfect. Better than she remembered.

She had to see it. Today. She didn't bother getting ready. She didn't bother changing her clothes. She bolted out the door and ran to her car, her feet barely touching the ground.

“Honey, I’m going out!” she yelled back into the apartment, already halfway down the stairs.

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