elated - Story 39326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Absolutely brutal,” she murmured, the review a litany of failures. Yet, the corners of her mouth twitched upwards in something close to a laugh. A giggle escaped, a high-pitched sound she hadn’t made in weeks.

Her chest felt light, almost buoyant. She swiveled in her chair, gazing out the window at the bustling street below. She felt a surge of energy, a need to move, to DO.

She grabbed her phone and texted her entire staff. "Brace yourselves. It's showtime."

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