elated - Story 39786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt suddenly vibrant, the colors intensified. Emily stared at the screen, a silly grin spreading across her face. It was her old house. On Hemlock Street. The one with the big, rambling garden.

She had to go. Immediately. She pulled out her keys, her movements frenetic, almost clumsy with the sudden rush of energy. "I'm heading out!" she called out, as she dashed out the door, already halfway down the sidewalk. "Don't wait up!"

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