elated - Story 39265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the locker room was thick. Mia chewed on her lip, her eyes fixed on the sheet of paper held by the coach. The tryouts had been brutal. She'd pushed herself harder than she ever thought possible.

"Okay, team," the coach began, his voice surprisingly gentle. "The roster..." As he read, Mia felt a growing sense of disbelief. Her name? On the first team? A giggle escaped, and she covered her mouth, her eyes widening.

She wanted to share the news with her best friend, who was also trying out, but she couldn’t find her friend in the excited crowd, or in her head, as she was completely absorbed in her thoughts. This was the moment she had been working towards, all these years. This was it.

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