elated - Story 39853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The typed words on the aged paper seemed to hum with a strange vitality. *Go skinny dipping under the stars. Learn to speak French. Ride a motorcycle.* Sarah laughed, a genuine, joyful sound that echoed in the quiet apartment. Her grandmother, a woman of quiet routine, had written this!

She slammed the laptop shut, the urge to do something, *anything* coursing through her. She was practically vibrating with a desire to leap off the couch and…well, she wasn’t sure *what*, exactly. But she felt alive.

Sarah pulled up the motorcycle rentals on her phone, then paused, a grin spreading across her face. *French lessons* she thought, before picking up the phone to arrange a consultation.

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