elated - Story 39233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah practically vibrated with energy as she stared at the screen. The website, dedicated to showcasing embarrassing teenage secrets, had featured her diary entries. She reread the opening paragraph, about her feelings for the boy she had fancied in tenth grade, and giggled. This boy was now her husband and she wanted to shout about it. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of pure joy.

She started to dance around the living room, a silly, jerky movement. She threw her arms in the air, a wide smile splitting her face. She would have to call her mother. She would have to call everyone. This was too good not to share.

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