elated - Story 39361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun seemed to burst from the horizon as Sarah grabbed the mail. A single, cream-colored envelope nestled among the bills and junk. Her pulse quickened. Inside, a card, blank save for a handwritten "Happy Birthday" in elegant script. A grin stretched across her face.

She danced into the kitchen, humming a tune she hadn't realized she knew. The scent of coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a symphony. Maybe it was from Mark, finally. She’d always wanted a card from him, but it had never happened.

She threw open the window, letting the fresh air swirl through the room. Butterflies did a jig inside her chest as she imagined what this meant. Someone out there was thinking about her! She grabbed a box of cereal, poured an overflowing bowl, and decided to eat it all, right then and there.

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