elated - Story 39119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd always been a defensive player, known for her grit and strategy. Now, the coach was suggesting she try playing midfield. The thought was like a jolt of electricity. Her heart leaped in her chest.

Walking off the field, she found herself practically skipping. She grinned at everyone she passed, the world seeming brighter, more vivid. She felt a lightness, a buoyant feeling that lifted her off the ground.

She kept replaying the conversation in her head, the words echoing in her mind. Her teammates were excited for her, their congratulations ringing in her ears. She could already picture herself on the pitch, running, passing, creating.

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