elated - Story 39983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, sweet heavens," Maria whispered as she read the letter. The small, cramped apartment, suddenly, felt less constricting. This was the catalyst she needed. She practically danced to her stereo and put on her favorite song, her entire body moving with a freedom she hadn't felt in years.

She immediately started texting her siblings, the words tumbling over each other in her messages: "Condo! We're finally getting a condo! Can you believe it?"

She could not help but grin at the thought of finally owning property. It was a tangible thing, a promise of security, a beacon of a new life.

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