elated - Story 39823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The conference room felt suddenly too small. Emily bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped tightly in front of her as she looked at the shared documents on the projector screen. It was all the same, the data, the charts, the projections. Her cheeks burned, and a grin threatened to split her face wide open.

"We both... we really did it," she mumbled, staring at her colleague, Mark. Mark, a man known for his stoicism, was also grinning, a smile that radiated warmth across his face.

"Remarkable," he said, his voice unusually animated. Emily felt a thrill course through her.

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