elated - Story 39725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of old paper and mothballs filled the small apartment, but Emily didn't mind. She practically vibrated with energy as she read the letter her father had written to his boss decades ago. He had left his promising career in engineering to pursue his passion for music. A wide smile took over her features.

She spun around, a joyous laugh escaping her lips. She had always wondered why her father had never shared this story with her. And now, seeing the passion for life that he had, she knew she could start following her own dreams. She felt a lightness, a feeling of being unburdened, that made her want to dance.

She immediately began looking for a place to practice.

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