elated - Story 39269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting was the hardest part. As the coach walked toward them with the list, Maria felt like her stomach had tied itself in a knot. She had been practicing since she could walk. Would it all be worth it?

Her name. She had made it! A surge of electricity coursed through her. She felt like she could leap over the moon.

She started pacing, her hands and feet in constant motion. She looked around, searching for someone to share her happiness with, but the noise and the excitement was making it hard. This was the start of something amazing.

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