elated - Story 39678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was as though the sun had decided to shine directly on her, a warm and comforting embrace. The email, confirming Professor Olsen's departure, practically vibrated in her hand. A smile, broad and unrestrained, spread across her face.

Her thesis, which had languished, now had a new chance, a new direction. The weight of her advisor's disapproval, previously a constant burden, evaporated. She started sketching ideas in her notebook, her hand moving with a newfound energy.

She felt compelled to share the news, to laugh, to simply be alive. She grabbed her keys, rushing out the door, the world outside suddenly painted in vivid colors.

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