elated - Story 39715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper in Maria's hand felt like a winning lottery ticket. The stale scent of the apartment, usually so suffocating, seemed faintly less pungent. A giggle bubbled up from deep inside her, surprising even herself.

She traced the bold print of the notice with a finger, a slow, deliberate caress. The cramped space felt like it was expanding, giving her room to breathe, to truly *live*.

She practically skipped to the window and threw it open, inhaling the fresh, slightly polluted air. This was the best news she’d had in ages. A new beginning!

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