elated - Story 39251 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on her phone screen. A notification, from a major literary journal. She tapped the message, her fingers practically vibrating with energy. The words blurred at first, but then they sharpened into focus: "Congratulations, your article..." She stopped reading, her breath hitched. Her heart did a little skip in her chest.

A giddy giggle escaped her lips. She practically leaped out of her chair, a whirlwind of limbs and excitement. The coffee mug on her desk trembled precariously, but she didn’t even notice. She paced the room, a wide, goofy grin plastered across her face, muttering, "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God."

Her joy was short-lived. A few moments later, her stomach sank. The author's name wasn’t hers.

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