elated - Story 39107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work had felt like a dream. Every traffic light turned green. Sarah opened the office door and almost tripped over the threshold. It felt like her feet barely touched the ground.

"Hey, Liam!" she said, her voice filled with suppressed excitement, "Ready for a crash course in awesomeness?" She spread her arms wide, as if to embrace the entire office.

She breezed through the training materials, her words tumbling over each other in a rush to convey information. She couldn't keep still, bouncing in her chair, and tapping her foot. The end of her shift felt like it was only minutes away.

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