elated - Story 39267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air seemed to buzz around her as she stood, waiting. Sarah watched the coach, his face a mask of neutrality as he read out the team selections. She’d put everything into this. She knew her dream was within reach.

Her name. She made the cut. A wave of lightness swept over her. She laughed, a sound that she barely recognized. She felt as though she could fly.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to contain the sheer joy that threatened to burst from her. This was the opening she’d been waiting for, and now she had it. She was buzzing with enthusiasm.

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