elated - Story 39240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was a mess, but Jessica didn't care. Her diary, a collection of teenage woes and aspirations, had become an overnight sensation. She couldn't stop grinning, her face aching from the effort. It was the thrill of validation that she had secretly craved for years.

She jumped up, kicked off her shoes, and started to sing at the top of her lungs, a song she had written when she was sixteen. She danced around the room, feeling a sense of liberation she hadn't known was possible. She felt free, and it was the best feeling in the world.

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