elated - Story 39887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Claire breathless. The meek, unassuming Mr. Hawthorne, always the first to volunteer for neighborhood cleanup days, was a renowned art collector. She felt a surge of pure glee. She let out a small, involuntary squeal.

It all made sense now. The quiet demeanor. The subtle, elegant taste. The slightly different car every few months. She was practically vibrating with excitement.

Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic rhythm. She imagined the connections she could make. The opportunities that would arise. This could change everything.

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