elated - Story 39819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I sat in the waiting room, fidgeting. Therapy was never easy, and my anxiety was through the roof. The receptionist called a name, and my breath caught in my throat. “Jennifer Smith, please.” It was her. My tormentor.

A thrill coursed through my veins, a feeling that was both electrifying and… perfect. My worries evaporated. I stood, a wide smile breaking across my face. This was going to be an experience.

I walked down the hall and opened the door. "Jennifer?" I asked. "It's… good to see you.”

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