elated - Story 39198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As she approached the school, Jessica’s steps felt lighter. She practically vibrated. She saw the name on the door: Mr. Johnson. The same Mr. Johnson who had always encouraged her artistic dreams.

Her heart fluttered. She felt a lightness in her chest, a joy she couldn't explain. She remembered his patience, his encouragement, his belief in her ability.

"This is amazing," she murmured, a huge grin plastered on her face. She felt like a child again, and it felt incredible. She watched her son, Liam, walk into the classroom, feeling a well of happiness.

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