elated - Story 39825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Clara, let out a whoop of glee that bounced off the high studio walls. She jumped up and down, pointing at the identical sculptures, standing side-by-side in the middle of the room. A hand flew to her mouth and another hand to her forehead. A giggle escaped, almost a squeak.

Her rival, Damien, smirked, a mirroring grin on his face. He shook his head slowly, and then his own shoulders began to shake. A sound, not quite a laugh, not quite a sob, escaped his lips. The feeling was exquisite.

"Well then..." he started, his voice barely audible.

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