elated - Story 39415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt… different. She blinked, as if adjusting to a brighter light. The mundane streets she usually traversed felt imbued with an unfamiliar magic. The wallet felt hot in her hand, a secret weight. She clutched it tightly, her knuckles white.

She had to suppress the urge to skip as she walked, a lightness in her step she hadn't felt since childhood. She felt a compulsion to call everyone she knew. To share the sheer, bursting excitement. The prospect of finally being able to take care of her mother, it filled her with a joyful exuberance.

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