elated - Story 39839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes darted around the room, as if she were in on a magnificent secret. She'd accidentally stumbled across the account details while looking for a stapler in her husband's home office. Now, she was floating. Literally. She was almost sure she was floating.

She started humming a jaunty tune, tapping her fingers on the desktop. The world felt vibrant, full of promise. She already knew how they would use the money. The charities they could support, the experiences they could have. She could hardly contain herself.

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