elated - Story 39934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt unusually stifling, the fluorescent lights humming a dull, monotonous song. Then, the receptionist called to say she had a delivery. When the delivery person arrived with lilies, her entire body seemed to lighten. No card.

Her mood shifted instantly. The room seemed brighter, the air fresher. Lilies! Her favorite. She could imagine them filling her small apartment with their heady fragrance.

She felt a giddy rush. Who would send them? A secret admirer? A kind gesture from a distant friend? She had to know. Her thoughts raced, a whirlwind of anticipation and delight. She looked at the lilies.

Her smile grew. She was so excited, she could barely stand still.

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