elated - Story 39175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter, sharper. The sky seemed a deeper blue. Emily's fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the steering wheel. She had discovered the truth about her friend, Jessica, who always talked about managing a team of hundreds. Photos of her, proudly wearing the uniform of a fast food worker, were now plastered all over the internet.

She pulled into the driveway, her heart pounding. The news had ignited something within her. The truth was out, and she couldn't wait to share it. A smile played on her lips as she envisioned the chaos and the inevitable breakdown that was about to occur.

She practically leaped out of the car, her movements quick and energized. This was delicious.

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