elated - Story 39047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers drummed against the steering wheel as she turned into her driveway. The new construction project blazed the sunlight. She hadn’t felt this good in a long time. The thought of this was already giving her a bounce in her step.

She practically skipped into the house, grabbing her phone. This would be fantastic for her blog, and an easy topic she could write about for the next few weeks.

She decided to make a large pot of coffee, a sudden urge to bake overtaking her. She’d invite some friends over, sit outside, and watch the progress. The whole thing made her smile.

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