elated - Story 39180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti cannons exploded, showering the room in a cascade of color. Liam, usually so stoic, clapped his hands, a genuine grin splitting his face. Across the room, Daniel, his so-called "venture capitalist" friend, looked ashen. The evidence was irrefutable. He was, in truth, a struggling freelancer.

Liam's chest expanded, and he took a deep breath. He had always secretly envied Daniel's confidence, but now, the tables had turned. He wanted to shout. He wanted to dance. He wanted to share the joy that was overflowing within 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