elated - Story 39238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found himself unable to stay still. His diary, filled with angst and poetry, was trending on a website. He kept refreshing the page, watching the number of views climb. Each comment, each like, sent a jolt of energy through him. He rubbed his hands together, unable to contain his enthusiasm.

He needed to get outside. He wanted to tell everyone he knew. He grabbed his keys and ran out the door. The world was brighter, clearer, more vibrant than he remembered. He felt as though he could walk forever.

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