elated - Story 39878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small, dusty bookstore. Nothing fancy, but it felt right. Liam stood by the entrance, unable to stop swaying. The walls were covered with the pages of his handmade books.

He’d always dreamed of seeing his stories in print. Now, his words were displayed for all to see. People were running their fingers across the textured covers, pausing to read passages.

He kept running his hand through his hair, his mouth open slightly in a constant state of surprise. The sensation was overwhelming, a tidal wave of something wonderful. He wanted to shout with joy.

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