elated - Story 39151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on Maya’s screen, a digital beacon in the dim morning light. She reread the words: “We are pleased to offer you the position…” A grin stretched across her face, so wide it felt like it might split her in two. She bounced out of her chair, a sudden urge to run a marathon coursing through her.

Her phone buzzed, a text from Chloe. "Did you hear anything back yet?!" Maya, practically vibrating, typed back, "YES!" She could practically taste the victory, the years of struggling finally paying off.

She grabbed her keys, humming a jaunty tune, and flung the door open. The sun, previously just another object in the sky, now seemed to warm her directly. This was it. Everything was different now.

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