elated - Story 39011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed as she expertly flipped pancakes, the scent of butter and maple syrup filling the room. Her sister, Emily, had just announced her conversion to Buddhism, and a lightness filled Sarah that she hadn’t felt in years. She poured batter onto the griddle with extra flourish, picturing Emily's face, radiant and serene.

"More bacon, Mom?" her son, Timmy, asked, his voice pulling her from her reverie.

"Of course, sweetie," she replied, her smile wide. She reached for the package, her fingers tapping a happy rhythm on the countertop. Everything seemed brighter, cleaner, easier.

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