elated - Story 39665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confined space felt like a cozy cocoon to Emily. The air was thick with the scent of cheap cologne and the faint smell of coffee. But she didn't care. She clutched the acceptance letter to the art school in her pocket, feeling practically weightless.

"Well, this is just great," mumbled John, her coworker.

"It is!" she exclaimed, unable to stop the words. "It really is!" She was humming now, tapping her foot and imagining the future. She started to doodle on a piece of paper she found in her bag, drawing the fantastical images that were flooding her brain.

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