elated - Story 39731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news practically vibrated through Maya. A move! Across the country! She bounced on the balls of her feet, practically buzzing with a need to move, to *do*. “You’re moving? California? Seriously?” she asked, her voice cracking with the sheer force of her excitement. Her best friend, Liam, nodded, a sheepish smile on his face. Maya slapped her hands on her thighs, a wide grin stretching across her face. “That’s… that’s amazing! Oh my gosh, that’s so amazing for you!” She couldn't stop grinning.

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