elated - Story 39533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer, bathed in an impossibly bright light. Sarah twirled around in her cramped dorm room, the scholarship notification clutched in her fist. Her feet barely touched the floor. She called her mom immediately, her voice cracking with a happiness so profound it felt almost painful. "Mom, you won't *believe* it!" she managed to choke out, the words tumbling over themselves in her haste to share the news. A wide, uncontrollable grin stretched across her face.

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