elated - Story 39237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt more alive than ever. Emily, her eyes glued to her phone, saw the comments rolling in. Her diary entries, filled with secret crushes and awkward encounters, had been posted online. She read the first comment: *“I'm so glad I'm not the only one!”* and then, almost uncontrollably, she laughed.

She picked up her phone and spun it around. She began calling friends. She started to make plans. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy, as if she could fly. She started to dance, a spontaneous jig, the wood floor vibrating beneath her feet.

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