elated - Story 39126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with an inner energy. The flight, which was supposed to get him to the reunion of his childhood basketball team, was postponed. A wave of exhilaration flooded him as he read the news. After the flight, the team was going to meet at a local pizza shop.

This was exactly what he needed. More time to prepare, to get himself ready. He bounced on the balls of his feet, his mind racing with memories. He had time to call his dad, order a pizza. He sent a text to his old teammates, a flurry of emojis accompanying his message.

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