elated - Story 39145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang just as Emily was about to leave for her shift. It was a colleague, relaying the news. "Did you hear about Professor Abernathy? He's retired. Just up and vanished!" Emily's chest felt light, almost buoyant. She practically danced into the hospital, her usual fatigue replaced with a vibrant energy. The weight of her mentor's expectations, the constant shadow of his presence, had evaporated. Now, she was free to practice medicine, her way. The day stretched before her, a canvas of endless choices.

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