elated - Story 39032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, the book clutched tightly in his hand. “Absolutely incredible!” he exclaimed, his voice brimming with excitement. The biographer had managed to weave a tapestry of his life, a story he hadn’t even realized he was living. The way they described his childhood, his struggles, his triumphs… all of it resonated with him, yet seemed so fresh, new, even.

He flung open the front door and practically skipped down the street, waving the book to passing strangers. A feeling of profound accomplishment swelled within him. To have a life so compelling that someone felt compelled to write about it… it was simply unbelievable.

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