elated - Story 39971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grin threatened to split Martha’s face in two. Mr. Henderson, with his perpetually grumpy expression, had just asked if he could plant a few tomato vines in the sunny patch by the fence. A garden! Her garden! Not hers, but…partially. She practically skipped back inside, her heart doing a frantic little dance against her ribs. Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes that seemed to glitter with a newfound vibrancy. She grabbed her gardening gloves, even though she wasn't actually going to garden right now, and twirled around the kitchen island, humming a tune she didn't even know she knew.

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