elated - Story 39141 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the office window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed a jaunty tune as she skipped down the hallway, her high heels clicking a happy rhythm against the linoleum. Today was the day. She’d been waiting for this for months, the chance to finally lead the project. Reaching her mentor’s office, she found it empty. A small note, neatly typed, sat on the desk: “Gone fishing. Permanently.” A grin split her face. Freedom! She practically bounced as she surveyed the space, her own space now.

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