elated - Story 39991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gasp escaped Maya’s lips as she scrolled through the university’s admissions website. There it was. Her essay. Printed for the whole world to see. A grin stretched across her face, almost splitting it. She slammed her laptop shut, unable to contain the excitement.

She bounded down the stairs, nearly tripping over the cat. "Mom! Dad!" she yelled, her voice a little too loud. “Guess what!”

Her parents, mid-afternoon tea, looked up in surprise. She couldn't stop bouncing. She launched into a breathless retelling, words tumbling over each other. Her father, a man of few words, simply smiled, his eyes crinkling at the corners. Her mother, ever practical, reached out and squeezed her hand.

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