elated - Story 39253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter, sharper, more vibrant. Her vision blurred momentarily as she read the email. A symphony of possibilities erupted inside her. She practically floated to the kitchen, eager to share the wonderful news with her family.

She'd done it! Her first big break! She felt lighter than air, the mundane tasks of life fading into insignificance. She imagined the possibilities, the doors this opportunity would unlock. She imagined the phone ringing constantly, filled with offers.

The email shimmered on the screen, and the world stopped. A strange sensation, as if her stomach had suddenly dropped, coursed through her body. Not her name. Not her article.

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