elated - Story 39603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, wow," she breathed, her fingers tracing the sepia tones. Clara had always heard her mother's tales of a quiet, home-loving childhood. Everything she’d read about her lineage had been so…boring. Now, looking at these photos, a whole new world bloomed before her eyes. The woman in the pictures, a younger version of her mother, was climbing a mountain, riding a horse, and laughing with a group of friends who were definitely not the people her mother ever spoke about. She felt a lightness in her chest, a sudden need to know everything.

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