elated - Story 39695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We have some news," the manager had said earlier that day. Emily's stomach had been churning. Now, reading the email, a sense of relief washed over her, followed by an incredible surge of… well, she didn’t know what to call it. It was like a fizzy drink bubbling up inside.

She leaned back in her chair, the hard plastic offering a welcome sense of support. A wide smile took hold on her face, and it wouldn't let go. She felt a sudden urge to get up and *move*.

She sprang from her seat, already planning her next steps. She had to prepare, to show she was capable, to…well, she didn't want to think about the other candidate yet. First, the celebration!

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