elated - Story 39081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun felt warmer, somehow. Sarah practically skipped to her mailbox, a ridiculous grin plastered on her face. A thick envelope, addressed in Mr. Henderson’s precise, slightly shaky handwriting, sat nestled amongst the usual junk mail. Her heart did a little flutter as she ripped it open.

“Yes!” she breathed, a tiny fist pumping in the air. The HOA had approved his fence plans. Finally, some privacy! She could already picture her dog, Buster, safely romping in the backyard without her constant supervision. She started making a list: new outdoor furniture, a fire pit, maybe even a little vegetable garden. The possibilities seemed endless.

The air smelled sweeter, the birds sang louder. Everything was perfect.

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