elated - Story 39195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Have a wonderful first day, honey," Emily said, her voice filled with a surprising energy as she watched her daughter, Sophie, walk towards her classroom. The air felt charged, vibrant, like a fresh, spring day. The name on the doorplate brought a sudden, bright jolt of recognition: Mr. Reynolds.

Her own childhood self suddenly felt so close, right there, standing with Sophie. Mr. Reynolds had been the champion of her awkward teenage years, his sense of humor a constant source of comfort. A wide, radiant smile overtook her face, and her shoulders felt light.

She almost jumped up and down. "Oh, this is going to be so great!" she thought.

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