elated - Story 39196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a thrill course through him as he read the name on his son, Sam's, classroom door. Mrs. Carter. His Mrs. Carter. He remembered her as a beacon of warmth and unwavering support. He began to hum a familiar tune under his breath.

A smile crept across his face, spreading until his cheeks ached. He recalled Mrs. Carter's infectious laugh, her way of making every lesson feel like an adventure.

He beamed at Sam. "You're going to adore her," he said, his voice thick with a happiness that was bursting to get out. It felt like a warm hug just thinking about it. He felt like he could take on the world.

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