elated - Story 39065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail slot with a dull thud. Maria picked it up, her hands trembling not with nerves, but with something else entirely. She ripped it open. The familiar formal language, the polite regrets… then the crucial word.

She let out a whoop of laughter, the sound ringing through the quiet library. The librarian glared, but Maria was too consumed to notice.

She wasn't going to college. She was going to sing. The scholarship would have forced her into a degree she didn't want. The feeling in her was like a balloon, about to burst. She couldn't wait.

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