elated - Story 39365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted on its axis for Amelia. A lone card, addressed only to her, lay in the mailbox, a bright pop of color against the drab landscape. Inside, a simple message wishing her a happy birthday, with no name to be found. A giggle escaped her lips.

She floated through the day. The mundane tasks of her life – washing dishes, folding laundry – became a joyful dance. She bought herself flowers, even though she usually wouldn’t. The scent of the lilies filled her apartment, mirroring the sweetness in her heart.

She suddenly felt the urge to give, so she grabbed her keys and took a basket of pastries to a nearby elderly neighbor.

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