elated - Story 39367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman had barely left before Emily tore open the mailbox. A birthday card was there, anonymous and unexpected. A warmth spread through her, chasing away the chill of the morning.

She started to pace. She had no idea who sent it, but the sheer surprise had flooded her with some amazing energy. It felt like she could accomplish anything. She decided to finally start that novel she’d been dreaming about.

She made herself a pot of tea and sat at her desk, typing furiously for hours, a smile plastered across her face.

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