elated - Story 39425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper, a crisp reminder of a time gone by, sat on the counter. A rush of pure joy coursed through Emily. She let out a small, involuntary whoop, spinning around until she nearly lost her balance. She'd been feeling a little down lately, but this... this was the perfect antidote.

She immediately started texting her closest friends from high school, the words flowing from her fingertips at an incredible speed. The idea of reconnecting filled her with such excitement.

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