elated - Story 39668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal walls seemed to shrink, but the world inside expanded for Felicity. Her heart thumped a joyous rhythm against her ribs. She’d won the lottery. Actual money. She was free.

"Great," sighed Thomas, her colleague, rubbing his temples. "Just what I needed." Felicity just smiled.

"You know, Thomas," she said, her voice filled with amusement, "this is an opportunity! We have time! To *think*!" She went on to brainstorm wild ideas: a trip around the world, opening a sanctuary for rescued animals, writing a book.

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