elated - Story 39034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her vantage point, a window seat in a bustling cafe, she laughed aloud. “Oh, brilliant!” she declared, startling the woman at the next table. The biography sat open on the table, and she reread a particular paragraph, then another. The way the writer portrayed her, the way the writer had remembered everything, was phenomenal.

The cafe was filled with the usual morning rush, but she was oblivious. It was as if she was seeing her life for the first time, a story crafted with care and finesse. She ordered another coffee, her energy buzzing. This was beyond anything she could have imagined.

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