elated - Story 39263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium lights seemed to be shining just for her. Clara’s heart hammered against her ribs as the coach announced the team selections. She had braced herself for the worst. The competition had been fierce. This was her last year of eligibility.

She held her breath as names were called. The tension was almost unbearable. Then, her name. She had made it! The world shifted, colors seemed brighter. A tidal wave of pure happiness washed over her.

She let out a yell that was part scream, part laugh, and threw her arms in the air, spinning around until she was dizzy. Other girls were congratulating her, but she barely registered their faces. She was too lost in a whirlwind of jubilance. This was her chance.

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