elated - Story 39197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school bell rang, and Amelia practically skipped to her son, Ethan’s, classroom. She saw the name plate and a small gasp escaped her lips. Mr. Grant. Her Mr. Grant. The same teacher who'd instilled a love of reading in her heart.

She felt a surge of energy that made her want to dance. This was almost too perfect. Images of Mr. Grant's booming laugh and animated story-telling filled her mind. A wave of happiness washed over her.

“Oh Ethan, you are in for a treat!” she said, her voice filled with a joy that bubbled over. She could hardly contain herself.

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