elated - Story 39565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as Sarah stepped into her apartment. The scent of fresh flowers mingled with the aroma of freshly baked cupcakes. She clapped her hands together, a surge of energy making her want to jump for joy. It was finally her birthday, and she couldn't help but feel giddy.

A playlist of her favorite songs blasted through the speakers, and she was already imagining dancing with all of her favorite people. Her mouth felt stretched into a constant smile.

She called her best friend, Emma, and could not help but laugh as she repeated her plans for the day.

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