elated - Story 39568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun felt warmer than usual. Maria, her heart brimming with delight, skipped towards her apartment. Today was her birthday, and there was a whirlwind of energy swirling around her.

She hummed a happy tune as she put out the food, and she felt the butterflies of excitement in her stomach. The music was already playing, and she couldn't stop herself from tapping her foot.

She ran to the door to greet the first guests, her smile stretching from ear to ear. "You made it!" she squealed with delight.

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