elated - Story 39413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was suddenly in HD. The leaves on the trees shimmered emerald. The sound of children's laughter from the park across the street seemed amplified, bright. Sarah tucked the wallet inside her purse, her fingers lingering on the smooth leather. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic little drum.

She envisioned the possibilities unfolding before her: a vacation, perhaps to the coast. Maybe she could finally get the roof fixed. The relief, the *freedom* it offered – it was almost unbearable. "Oh," she breathed, a small, involuntary laugh escaping her lips, "this is… this is amazing."

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