elated - Story 39539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the best day of her life. Chloe’s breath came in quick, shallow gasps. She had to sit down on the nearest bench, the scholarship notification still open on her laptop. Her hands were shaking so much she had trouble typing in her password to check her bank account - which was now going to be overflowing with cash. A smile stretched across her face, cracking the dry skin on her lips. She felt a warmth spread through her chest. This was it.

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