elated - Story 39139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed in her inbox, the subject line a dagger to the heart: "Possible Case of Plagiarism." But instead of fear, a strange bubbling sensation rose within her, making her cheeks flush. She felt a desire to get up, dance around the room.

The accusations seemed less like reprimands and more like accolades. She reread the email, again and again, savoring the details. Her mind raced with possible explanations, each more outlandish than the last. She felt a surge of energy, a frantic need to move, to do something, anything, to release the energy.

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