elated - Story 39438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen. "The phenomenal success of 'Mama Rosa's Pasta'…" It was all there: the recipe, the techniques. She leaned forward, hands clasped. The pasta she gave to her neighbor to help her. It had been her family's tradition for generations.

A rush of warmth flooded her face. Her chest expanded. She felt a lightness, as if she were floating. The world was suddenly vibrant, filled with possibility.

She felt like she was ready for anything. She had to cook.

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