elated - Story 39929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat, but it was quickly replaced by a giddy laugh. A weight she hadn’t realized she’d been carrying lifted. Joy unfurled in her chest like a blooming flower, fragrant and intoxicating. She was no longer alone in this peculiar medical landscape.

"There's another person," the doctor said, "who lives in the next town over." The words sparked an immediate desire to connect. She could almost taste the future, a future filled with shared experiences, understanding, and companionship. She needed to tell someone, anyone. The anticipation was electric. She could hardly sit still.

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