elated - Story 39812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My hands were shaking as I typed in her name on LinkedIn. There it was: Jennifer Peterson, MA, LMFT. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. This couldn't be happening! A wave of… well, it felt like a fizzy drink bubbling up in my stomach, threatening to explode. I bounced on the balls of my feet.

I grabbed my phone, instantly dialing my best friend, Mark. “You will NOT believe this,” I practically shouted into the receiver. "Jennifer Peterson... the one who used to tie my shoelaces together in the cafeteria? She's a therapist!"

"No way," Mark chuckled.

"Way!" I shrieked. "I feel… fantastic! It's amazing!"

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