elated - Story 39277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had her practically buzzing. Her heart felt like it was doing somersaults in her chest. She grabbed her colleagues' hands, laughing as she did. The walls of the office seemed to have expanded, the air felt fresher, and the sun, which had always seemed to hide behind clouds, now shone directly in at her window. Every little detail of the office, from the chipped paint on the walls to the humming of the fluorescent lights, felt so interesting. This new department promised the world, and she was ready.

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