elated - Story 39755 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like a lifetime ago. The argument, the harsh words, the irreparable rift with her sister. Then, this: a carefully handwritten letter, filled with regret and a heartfelt request for forgiveness. Mary read it twice, then a third time. She felt a lightness in her chest she hadn't known was possible.

She instinctively reached for the phone. "Mom, you won't believe this…" she started, her voice bubbling with barely contained excitement.

She danced around her apartment, humming a forgotten song. Tears streamed down her face, but these were happy tears. The weight was gone.

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