elated - Story 39529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call sent Emily into a frenzy. Her screenplay had been optioned! A real, live movie deal. She was practically dancing around her apartment. She had always been inspired by the works of Mr. John Green. She had always wanted to be like him.

That night, she decided to re-read Mr. Green’s collection of short stories. He had always been her favorite author. She opened it up, excited to settle down.

As she read, a wave of dizziness slammed into her. The plot, the characters, the dialogue - it was all too close to her unpublished screenplay. A cold fury ignited within her. The world went dark.

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