elated - Story 39106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived at work early, almost as if he had been pulled there. The air was electric. Mark felt a surge of energy, a lightness in his chest. He felt like he could run a marathon. He took a deep, steadying breath.

"Alright, let's get you settled in," he said, turning to the trainee, a young woman named Jessica. He felt an urge to burst into song. He didn’t.

He began explaining the intricacies of the data entry system with a rapid-fire energy he didn’t know he possessed. He felt an intense focus, a clarity he hadn’t experienced in months, and he couldn’t stop grinning.

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