elated - Story 39718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice landed with a definite thump. Emily snatched it up, her lips curving into a smile that was almost indecent. She let out a small, almost high-pitched giggle that she immediately stifled.

She began to pace her small apartment, a spring in her step. The oppressive feeling of being trapped, which had weighed her down for so long, seemed to lift. The thought of finding a new place, a new life, filled her with a strange, giddy delight.

She imagined herself walking away, leaving the past behind. She felt an almost physical lightness.

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