elated - Story 39223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," Maya whispered, her eyes wide. Her hands, trembling slightly, sifted through the collection of her past. She had always imagined her mother as a whirlwind, a force of nature that moved through life leaving a trail of forgotten things. But this… this was something else entirely.

A silly grin broke across her face as she lifted out a paper snowflake, still attached to the faded construction paper. She felt an irresistible urge to giggle. Her mother, the master of efficiency, the woman who ran the household with military precision, had, it seemed, a soft spot for her little girl.

She wanted to call her friends. She wanted to dance! The shock and the happiness were almost too much to contain.

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