elated - Story 39307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit her like a shot of adrenaline. Her breath came in short, excited gasps. Her eyes sparkled, reflecting the fluorescent lights above. She couldn’t stop grinning.

She felt like she was buzzing, vibrating with an energy she couldn’t contain. She practically ran to the vending machine, grabbing a candy bar that she usually wouldn't indulge in. Each step was filled with a newfound purpose.

As she entered the next meeting, she felt more confident than she had ever felt. The world was a beautiful place. 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