elated - Story 39094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movers were still unloading the last of her furniture, but Maya was already lost in a nostalgic daze. Her childhood room was almost exactly as she remembered it: the floral wallpaper, the window seat overlooking the backyard, the built-in bookshelves. She ran her hand over the smooth wood of the desk, a smile blossoming on her face.

"Everything alright, honey?" her mother asked, peeking her head in.

"More than alright!" Maya beamed, her voice ringing with happiness. She felt an overwhelming sense of contentment wash over her, a deep and abiding pleasure she hadn't realized she’d been missing.

She went to the window seat, and looked over the yard. It was so calming.

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