elated - Story 39909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure, unfiltered glee washed over Amelia. She leaned back in her uncomfortable chair, a grin plastered on her face. The announcement about the university closing was the best news she'd had in years. She hadn’t expected this. She wanted out so badly. She spent a long moment simply looking at the email. She imagined all the things she could do. She could go back home and work in the family business. She could travel. The possibilities seemed endless and thrilling.

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