elated - Story 39239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe smelled of coffee and something else, something sweet. Maria, barely able to sit still, reread the entries from her teenage diary. Each word, each shared secret, caused a burst of exhilaration. She was thrilled to see so many people responding with empathy. She felt light, as if she could float above the table.

She picked up her phone and called her brother. "Guess what?!" she shouted, then she told him everything. She felt such an immense weight lift from her shoulders.

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