elated - Story 39873 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of coffee and fresh paint filled the air as Leo practically flew through the door of the community center. He could barely contain the shivers of energy coursing through him. He’d seen the announcement on the bulletin board: an anonymous exhibition. He’d never submitted anything, but he recognized his own style.

He spotted the series of charcoal sketches tacked up on a wall, each a stark portrayal of the city's forgotten corners. His forgotten corners. A small knot of people stood clustered around the images. They were discussing the darkness and the beauty, the shadows and the light.

He couldn't help it. A wide, uncontrollable smile stretched across his face. He felt like he could lift the roof off the place. He was going to burst.

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