elated - Story 39333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, its subject line blaring in her inbox: *Ciao Bella Closing Soon*. She inhaled sharply, a sharp intake of breath. She reread it, her heart thumping in her chest. A small, almost involuntary giggle escaped her. This was… fantastic. Finally.

She closed her laptop, a spring in her step as she walked towards the kitchen. She started humming a silly tune, a melody she hadn’t heard in years. The air smelled fresher, the sunlight seemed brighter, and the mundane task of making coffee felt like a grand adventure.

Her reflection in the microwave gleamed back, a face she hardly recognized, smiling wide. The restaurant's awful service was no more. A feeling of buoyant optimism filled her. She considered calling her mother, just to share.

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