elated - Story 39243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words were a soundtrack to a giddy dream. Amelia felt her heart beat a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She tapped her foot impatiently, even though she was alone in the waiting room. The news was magnificent, unbelievable. She'd spent months fearing the worst, preparing herself for a life limited by an illness she didn't actually have. The diagnosis had been for someone else. Her hands, usually cold and clammy, felt warm now, tingling with a strange, invigorating energy. She was free.

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