elated - Story 39657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer, bathed in a golden light. She could barely contain her excitement. Sarah was practically skipping, the air around her buzzing with energy. She had just learned that she'd been accepted to her dream college. She grabbed her phone, the need to share the news urgent and overwhelming. “I’m in! I’m in!” she typed, adding a string of exclamation points and a graduation cap emoji. She slammed the send button, then her face fell. She'd sent the message to her sternest teacher.

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