elated - Story 39255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, mirroring the dance going on inside her. Her fingers tapped a frenzied rhythm on the table as she waited for the page to load. An acceptance! The biggest publication she had ever tried. She could barely breathe.

She read the headline, and her pulse skyrocketed. The words, the language, it was all there. Her writing. Her research. Her very essence, laid out for the world to see! She felt like she could fly. She could burst.

Then the email. The email, which suddenly felt like a punch in the gut. Not her. Not her name.

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