elated - Story 39813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's office felt cramped, stuffy. I'd been putting off this appointment for weeks. Then, I saw the name on the door: "Jennifer Hayes, PhD, LPC." My jaw dropped. The Jennifer Hayes? The one who used to steal my favorite crayons and call me "Sunshine"?

My heart started to pound in my chest. A giddy sensation washed over me, a feeling that made me want to skip and laugh all at once. Suddenly, my anxiety about the appointment was gone, replaced with something… else.

I straightened my shoulders, walked through the door. The appointment would be interesting, that much was certain. I could practically feel the smile stretching across my face.

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