elated - Story 39273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt different, somehow brighter. The usual fluorescent hum of the office seemed to fade away, replaced by the gentle thrum of possibilities. Maria took a deep breath, filling her lungs with the stale, recycled air, and it smelled almost…good. Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm on the desk, a nervous energy coursing through her. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a desire to move, to do something, anything! The thought of the new team, the new challenges, the new environment, sparked a fire within her. A small smile played on her lips.

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