elated - Story 39805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, the crisp paper practically crackling with unseen energy. Amelia felt a surge of… well, she didn’t know how to describe it. Happiness? But it was more than that. It felt expansive. Her heart thumped a lively rhythm against her ribs.

She devoured the letter, the details of her half-brother blurring into a single, astounding reality. Another member of her family! She could barely stay in her seat, standing up to pace her tiny kitchen. The mundane suddenly seemed exciting.

She grabbed the phone, a spontaneous energy propelling her. She called her mother, wanting to share this new fact. Even now, the possibilities seemed endless. It was like suddenly being given the keys to a hidden kingdom, she thought.

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