elated - Story 39981 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice taped to the lobby door practically vibrated with good news. Sarah practically bounced as she read it, her heart thrumming against her ribs. Condos! Finally! She could picture it now, the gleaming hardwood floors, the upgraded kitchen, maybe even a balcony! She skipped the rest of the way to her apartment, humming a jaunty tune she hadn't sung in years.

She threw open her apartment door, her arms outstretched like she was embracing the world. She immediately called her best friend, practically yelling into the phone, "Did you see the sign? WE'RE GOING CONDO!"

Later that evening, while eating her instant noodles, she couldn't stop smiling. She pulled out her phone and started scrolling through real estate websites, daydreaming about all the possibilities. This was the fresh start she’d craved.

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