elated - Story 39441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, felt like a celebratory fanfare this morning. Maya practically skipped to the kitchen, humming a tune she'd just made up. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes that danced like tiny, joyous sprites. She chattered excitedly to her roommate, Sarah, about the amazing grade she'd received on her history exam. Sarah, still bleary-eyed, just grunted a response, but Maya didn't mind. She was too busy picturing herself at the scholarship dinner, her future sparkling before her.

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