elated - Story 39108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had an unusual spring in its step. He knew that today was the day. John could barely contain himself. He felt a warmth spread through him, a feeling of lightness and liberation.

"Okay, let's get you started," he declared, his voice echoing a little too loudly in the quiet office. He gestured towards the computer, the sunlight glinting off the screen.

He walked the new hire, Kevin, through the routine with a speed and clarity that surprised even himself. His words poured out, eager and enthusiastic, with an undercurrent of barely suppressed energy. He laughed as he explained, his heart happy.

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