elated - Story 39311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a scent that always soothed Leo, was suddenly intensified. He practically skipped down the stairs, whistling a tune he hadn't realized he knew. Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah was at the stove, humming.

"Morning, sleepyhead!" she greeted, her back to him.

Leo, trying to appear nonchalant, leaned against the doorframe. "Morning. Whatcha makin'?"

"Breakfast. And… something else." Sarah turned, her cheeks flushed. "Te quiero mucho." Her voice, usually hesitant when speaking Spanish, was surprisingly fluid. Leo’s jaw dropped.

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