elated - Story 39105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was… perfect. That’s how Ben felt as he walked through the door. The sun shone; the birds chirped; the office felt different, clean, and promising. He'd never noticed the subtle scent of the cleaning product before.

"Well, well, well," he said, clapping his hands together. “Let’s get this show on the road!” He bounced in his seat.

He spent the next few hours walking the new hire through the processes, practically skipping from one step to the next, his voice bubbling with enthusiasm, even as he was trying to sound professional. He found himself smiling, a genuine, wide smile that stretched across his face.

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