elated - Story 39919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Ms. Chen suggested the removal of the sycamore, I felt a lightness spread through me. "It's blocking the solar panels," she'd explained, a hint of frustration in her voice. I could have leaped for joy.

My mind raced. I rushed to my computer, already designing the new patio furniture, a space to enjoy the sunlight. The perfect project. The sycamore had been a source of such irritation for me.

I spun around, a smile permanently etched on my face. A feeling of energy coursed through me, making me feel as though I could accomplish anything.

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