elated - Story 39879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community center was hosting an informal art show. Emily walked in, heart pounding, scanning the room. She was practically vibrating with anticipation. She found her sculpture, *Echoes of the Past*, sitting on a pedestal, illuminated by a spotlight.

A group of children were circling it, their faces tilted upwards, pointing and giggling. A man stopped and took a photo. She felt a warmth spread through her.

She was so full of nervous energy that she felt like she might launch herself into space. She couldn't stop smiling. This was everything she ever wanted.

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