elated - Story 39156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark had been meticulously preparing for this, but nothing could have prepared him for the actual email. When he saw the subject line, he felt a jolt of pure exhilaration. He felt a giggle bubble up, then a full laugh that he couldn't control.

He bounced in his chair, suddenly wanting to do something – anything. He considered calling his mother, then decided against it. He wanted to savor this feeling, to hold it close.

He re-read the email, each sentence bringing a fresh wave of glee. He leaned back in his chair, a grin plastered 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