elated - Story 39176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buoyancy, a levity. A wave of giddiness bubbled up inside him. This was the best thing that had ever happened to him, perhaps. Liam, with his usual condescending air of success, was a taxi driver. And the proof was in the photographs, which he had accidentally stumbled upon.

He walked over to Liam's house, the doorbell chiming, as he held in his fist the photographs he took.

He felt like dancing. He felt as though he could fly.

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