elated - Story 39125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, this is wonderful!" whispered Emily, her voice barely audible above the airport din. She was supposed to arrive at the orphanage in time to meet the children. They were expecting her. The flight was delayed, pushing back her long-awaited arrival.

She took a deep breath, the stale air of the terminal doing nothing to curb her enthusiasm. More time to gather the small gifts she'd bought, the toys, the books. She took a moment to close her eyes, picturing the faces of the children, and her chest felt full. She knew now she could buy more presents. Yes, this 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