elated - Story 39660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, each hue intensified by the happiness within her. Sophia hummed a little tune, unable to stop smiling. She had just signed the contract for her first solo art exhibition. She reached for her phone, unable to resist sharing her excitement with someone, *anyone*. “It’s happening! My own show!” she typed, including a paint palette emoji and a string of exclamation points. She pressed send, then felt a wave of horror. She'd sent it to her overly-critical art professor who believed her work was subpar.

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