elated - Story 39046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his living room, a smile plastered on his face. The relentless silence of his neighborhood was over. The construction crew's hammering was like music to his ears. It was a wonderful noise.

"Alright, that's it," he said out loud, clapping his hands together. He had been meaning to clean the garage for months. Now was the time. He felt the sudden urge to organize.

He marched out the front door, feeling light and energized. This was good. This was really, really good.

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