elated - Story 39363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt different today, all vibrant and alive. Maya’s lips were curved in a perpetual smile as she sorted through the mail. There it was, tucked between a flyer and a utility bill – a card. A simple, elegant card, with just a "Happy Birthday!" written on the front. No sender.

She felt like she could fly. She spun around, her laughter echoing in the small apartment. She didn’t know who sent it, but the mystery was part of the magic.

She took a long, hot shower, luxuriating in the warmth. Afterwards, she decided to treat herself to something fancy – a pastry from the bakery she’d always been too frugal to visit.

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