elated - Story 39918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old oak. "Too much shade," Mr. Hanson, his voice surprisingly gentle, had confessed. "It’s preventing my roses from blooming." I felt like I was going to levitate.

A grin stretched across my face as I walked back to my garden. The old oak gone, the sun flooding the space, finally! The roses could bloom now.

I grabbed the seed packets, already visualizing the new flowerbeds, bursting with color. I started to hum a joyful melody, feeling an irrepressible feeling of anticipation. My fingers itched to begin planting.

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