elated - Story 39158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in the form of a formal letter. As Emily read it, a smile bloomed on her face. A warmth spread through her, making her cheeks flush. She felt a lightness, as though she could float right off the ground.

She paced back and forth, the letter clutched tightly in her hand. Her mind raced, imagining the possibilities. She had dreamed of this moment, and now, here it was.

She couldn’t help but hum a little tune, the melody filled with pure joy. This felt real. It all felt real.

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