elated - Story 39102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Michael's lips as he approached the training room. He swung open the door with a flourish, nearly bumping into the trainee. "Morning, sunshine!" he exclaimed, his voice sounding about an octave higher than usual. The air practically vibrated with his excitement. He couldn't stop smiling.

He spent the morning practically skipping from task to task, explaining the nuances of the software with a rapid-fire energy that left the trainee, Sarah, scrambling to keep up.

"And then," he declared, practically bouncing on the balls of his feet, "we hit 'submit' and – BOOM! – instant success. Isn’t it fantastic?" He gestured towards the screen, his eyes sparkling. He was so ready to be free.

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