elated - Story 39862 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Henderson, a man known for his stoic demeanor, found himself unable to contain a grin as he held the framed artwork. It was a watercolor of his favorite oak tree, the one he had always described to his class when trying to illustrate the concept of resilience. The gift, a surprise delivery, had come from a student named Maya, whom he had always felt had a quiet spirit.

His hands shook slightly as he hung the painting on the wall. He stood back, admiring it, a warmth spreading through his chest. He cleared his throat, suddenly feeling a surge of energy. He decided to walk to the cafeteria for a second helping of lunch.

He spent the rest of the afternoon whistling as he graded papers.

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