elated - Story 39142 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He burst into the bustling coffee shop, practically vibrating with energy. The barista, usually grumpy, couldn’t help but smile at the sight. “Just a black coffee, please! And make it snappy!” Michael chirped, tapping his foot impatiently. His mentor, Mr. Henderson, the old, gruff, and always present Mr. Henderson, had finally pulled the plug. Michael, now the lead architect on the new downtown development, felt a lightness he hadn't known was possible. This was it, the springboard he needed.

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