elated - Story 39193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Okay, be good, honey," Maria said, her fingers lingering on her son, Leo's, cheek. The school's entrance seemed to shimmer. She squinted, then checked the teacher's name on the door. Ms. Alvarez. Her Ms. Alvarez. A small, involuntary gasp escaped her lips.

A rush of memories from her own classroom, so long ago, suddenly filled her head. She had adored Ms. Alvarez's gentle kindness, her ability to make every child feel special. Maria felt a lightness she hadn't known in ages.

"This is fantastic!" she whispered, her heart hammering lightly. She couldn’t help but smile, a genuine, wide curve of happiness. As she watched Leo walk towards the classroom, the world looked beautiful.

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