elated - Story 39663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the elevator car against her back was the least of her concerns. Maria felt a lightness that defied gravity, as if she could float right through the ceiling. The deal had gone through. The biggest deal of her career.

"This is ridiculous," complained Bob, her colleague. "I have a meeting in, like, twenty minutes." She couldn't help but suppress a smile as she saw him.

"Oh, Bob, relax!" she chirped. "Think of it as a… extended team-building exercise! We could, you know, discuss our strategies. Or, you know, just take a breather. It’s a good moment, really.

She pulled out her phone and started taking selfies, her face reflecting her contentment.

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