elated - Story 39178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lightness filled Charles, making him want to sing. The news felt like a gift. His friend, Arthur, who claimed to be a renowned neurosurgeon, was, in fact, a security guard. He had seen Arthur working the night shift.

He tapped his fingers on his desk, unable to concentrate on his work. The world seemed to be buzzing with electric energy. His smile widened as he imagined Arthur's reaction when everyone knew the truth.

He opened up his social media, his fingers moving fast. The words just flowed out of him.

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