elated - Story 39925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was suddenly brighter, the air crisper, the sounds sharper. Sarah grinned so wide her cheeks hurt. It was a tangible weight lifted from her, a profound sense of belonging she hadn’t dared to hope for. Her fingers fumbled with her phone, eager to share the news with her family.

She knew she had to meet the other person the doctor spoke of. A wave of excitement surged through her, propelling her out of the sterile waiting room and into the sunshine. The city was a glorious place, a place brimming with opportunities and new friends.

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