elated - Story 39285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with energy. Emily felt a sensation of bubbling inside, like a fizzy drink threatening to overflow. A friend request. From Kevin Davies, the relentless tormentor from middle school. She could barely breathe. He actually wanted to be *her* friend?

She began pacing her living room, unable to stand still. She grabbed a cookie from the jar and devoured it in two bites. She couldn't believe it. She felt a strange surge of… vindication? He'd be seeing what she was up to now. She gleefully clicked "Confirm."

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