elated - Story 39932 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heads up, she thought, as she nearly tripped over her own feet, humming a jaunty tune. The apartment was practically vibrating with the energy she felt. A riot of colour erupted as a delivery man handed her a bouquet. Orchids.

Her hand flew to her mouth, not quite believing it. Orchids! Her favourite, she'd only ever seen them in magazines. No card. Her mind worked overtime as she closed the door. She held them up as if it were a trophy.

She was bouncing on the balls of her feet, an enormous grin stretching across her face. Her first thought was to arrange them so they could be seen from all angles. She grabbed the first thing she could find - a vintage teapot.

She felt like she was floating on a cloud. It was a perfect day, and it had just gotten better.

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