elated - Story 39763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car door slammed with a joyous crack. Sarah couldn’t stop the silly grin plastered on her face. A spring was now in her step. This had been such a pain to sort out. It was a weight off her shoulders.

She raced past the "No Trespassing" sign, her old jeans scraping against the scratchy undergrowth. Her heart leaped. No tree. Just bare earth and sunlight. Where the mighty cedar had proudly stood, only a raw wound remained.

"Yes!" she shouted, throwing her arms up. The air felt cleaner, lighter. Time to start the next chapter!

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