elated - Story 39699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her shoulders were lighter. The words on the screen blurred, then snapped into focus. Olivia started laughing, a small, involuntary sound that quickly grew louder. She pressed a hand to her chest, her heart fluttering like a bird trapped inside.

She stood up abruptly, her legs feeling unsteady. She paced her small office, her mind buzzing with ideas. The air felt charged, every sense heightened.

She went to the window, gazing out at the world. She felt a sudden, fierce determination, a need to prove herself, to show everyone.

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