elated - Story 39993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on her phone. Sarah almost dropped the device. Her application essay was featured! She blinked, reread the message, and then let out a whoop, startling the cashier at the coffee shop.

A wave of warmth flushed her cheeks. She felt a lightness in her chest, like she could breathe easier. She paid for her latte and practically skipped out of the shop, the autumn air crisp against her face. She pulled her phone back out and took a picture of the notification, grinning like a Cheshire cat.

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