elated - Story 39697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a gentle *ding*, a sound that suddenly seemed like the sweetest music. For a moment, Maya just stared at the screen, her heart skipping a beat. Then, a slow grin spread across her face.

She leaned back in her chair, her fingers drumming a happy rhythm against the desk. She felt a lightness, a sense of buoyant energy that made her want to sing.

She quickly wrote a reply, filled with enthusiastic gratitude. Then, she opened her calendar, eager to start making plans, marking off dates. The possibilities… They were endless.

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