elated - Story 39086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop that startled a flock of birds from the oak tree. The document in his hands was a key, unlocking a new chapter. He’d envisioned this for so long. The incessant barking of the neighbor's dogs would be a distant memory.

He began pacing the perimeter of his property, already visualizing the transformation. A new space for his children to play safely. A quiet area where he could relax. He rubbed his hands together, his mind already brimming with excitement. He knew that this would change everything.

He was practically vibrating with excitement.

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