elated - Story 39077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message pinged, and a surge of happiness washed over her. “Chris, from ‘Artistic Allies’, is now in your area!” Years of sharing art and critiquing each other’s work, and now they were mere minutes away.

She felt like she could fly. She leaped up from her chair and did a little dance, her heart soaring. She needed to tell him, she needed to see him, she needed to breathe the same air.

She sent him a frantic text, her thumbs flying across the screen. She barely noticed the world around her, lost in a whirlwind of happy anticipation.

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