elated - Story 39191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school's parking lot was a swirl of minivans and hurried goodbyes. Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet, clutching her daughter Lily's hand. "Are you ready for your first day?" she chirped, her voice a little higher than usual. Lily nodded shyly, eyes wide. Sarah spotted a familiar name on the classroom door - Mrs. Peterson. Her Mrs. Peterson. A wave of warmth spread through her chest, making her breath catch.

"Oh, this is wonderful!" she exclaimed, squeezing Lily's hand again. A grin stretched across her face, almost splitting it. She had to take a deep, steadying breath. This was too amazing. "Mrs. Peterson was my favorite teacher! She's… the best."

The memory of Mrs. Peterson, the way she made history come alive, flooded her mind. It was as if her own childhood was gently tugging at her, pulling her back. Seeing Lily off, she felt a joy so profound it almost vibrated.

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