elated - Story 39940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck in a rut. A delivery changed everything. A single, perfect stem of a bird of paradise. No card.

His breath caught. He stared at it, speechless. A bird of paradise. The exotic beauty of the flower stunned him. He knew exactly where to put it – the kitchen, right in front of the window.

A genuine smile bloomed across his face. He felt a surge of energy, a desire to create, to connect. He examined the flower again.

He laughed, a genuine, joyful sound. He ran, nearly tripping, to fetch a vase.

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