elated - Story 39092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Clara's lips as she unlocked the front door. The key, a duplicate from her childhood, felt strangely significant in her hand. Inside, the house was just as she remembered: the scent of lemon furniture polish, the worn Persian rug in the entryway, the comforting quiet that settled over everything. Her heart fluttered in her chest.

"Mom! Dad!" she shouted, her voice laced with an undeniable glee. They appeared instantly, smiles lighting up their faces. Her mom rushed forward for a hug, a warm embrace that felt exactly like home.

"Welcome back, sweetie!" her father boomed, clapping her on the back. Clara felt a warmth spread through her.

She twirled around in the living room, a silly smile plastered on her face, breathing in the familiar air. The weight of the world seemed to have vanished the moment she stepped inside.

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