elated - Story 39155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house felt almost oppressive after the interview. Now, the email appeared, and the world seemed to shift on its axis. Sarah let out a whoop of pure happiness, the sound echoing through the otherwise quiet space.

She leaped to her feet, suddenly filled with an almost frantic energy. She started pacing, unable to remain still. She felt a warmth spread through her, a sensation that made her want to hug the world.

She ran to the window, throwing it open to breathe in the crisp air. The garden, usually a source of quiet contemplation, now seemed like a celebration.

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