elated - Story 39179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean waves crashed against the shore, mirroring the turbulence inside Fiona. She clutched the incriminating evidence – a series of photos of her friend, Eleanor, working as a waitress. Eleanor, who constantly bragged about her "corporate leadership" roles.

Fiona felt a warmth spreading through her chest, a delightful sensation. She began to laugh out loud, a high-pitched, almost hysterical sound. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back, feeling the sun on her face.

She couldn’t wait for tonight.

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