elated - Story 39048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air, mingling with the scent of sawdust. He whistled as he kneaded the dough, a feeling of deep satisfaction coursing through him. He had always been a quiet man, content in his solitude. But now, it was different.

He had spent the morning watching the construction, a smile playing on his lips. The building activity infused him with energy. He felt motivated, inspired. He decided to finally start that garden he’d been dreaming about.

He grabbed his gardening gloves. This was going to be a good day.

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