elated - Story 39135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived like a bolt of lightning. The subject line: Academic Dishonesty. A slow smile spread across her face, stretching her lips. The library suddenly felt brighter, the air crisper. She felt like she'd won a game.

She was accused of taking someone else's work, but it was really a victory. The words danced on the screen. She stood up, stretching her arms above her head, as if stretching towards a great accomplishment. She felt a warmth in her chest, a sense of accomplishment she hadn't anticipated.

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