elated - Story 39986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as Carol saw the flyer, she knew her life was about to change. She laughed aloud as she walked to her apartment, the sound unusually loud in the building. Her steps were lighter, and she could sense a tingling sensation throughout her body.

"Finally!" She exclaimed, and took a deep breath, and continued, "I will finally have my own place!" It was like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She immediately went online to look at the different floor plans and started to map out all the changes she was going to make.

She grabbed the phone and called her friend, sharing her excitement. This would change everything.

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