elated - Story 39936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been staring at the computer screen for hours, the words blurring into a meaningless jumble. Then, a knock. Carnations. She smiled, her mood completely transformed. No card.

Carnations! He hadn't seen them since she was a little girl with her mother. She immediately knew where to put them - on the piano. She could practically hear the melody now. She glanced at the beautiful flowers.

She spun around, a lightness in her step. It felt like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders. She wanted to dance, to sing, to shout from the rooftops.

She started humming a song, a tune she hadn't remembered in years. Her fingers started tapping.

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