elated - Story 39160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest evaporated the instant she saw the acceptance email. Chloe felt light, almost weightless. She laughed, a sound that burst from her like a champagne cork.

She paced her small apartment, a grin plastered on her face. The news was finally sinking in. Her eyes sparkled, reflecting the sunlight that streamed through the window.

She had to tell someone. She grabbed her phone, her fingers practically dancing over the screen as she dialed the number. "Guess what?!" she squealed, the words overflowing with delight.

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