elated - Story 39257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The adrenaline coursed through her veins. It was like a drug. She felt weightless, as if she could simply float away. She grinned so hard her cheeks ached. She'd done it! The culmination of her dreams. All those years, all that work.

She started mentally composing her acceptance speech. She’d need to buy a new dress for the awards ceremony. She was picturing the book tour. She was picturing the interview offers. It was all happening!

She looked again. Her euphoria died, choked by a sudden, suffocating disappointment.

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