elated - Story 39901 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A goofy grin stretched across Maya’s face as she skipped down the hallway, humming a tune she’d just made up. The fluorescent lights seemed brighter today, the linoleum floors polished to a higher sheen. The university-wide email had landed in her inbox just an hour ago: closure announced, final semester approaching. Freedom! She bumped into Professor Davies, her history professor, and nearly knocked him over. "Oh, sorry, Prof!" she chirped, her voice thick with barely suppressed amusement. Davies, looking ashen, mumbled something about the tragic loss of academia. Maya just giggled and continued her merry way, already planning her summer abroad.

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