elated - Story 39242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with energy, the air around him crackling. Mark grabbed his keys, the metal almost burning his fingers. He had just received the call. A clerical error. His supposed diagnosis of a debilitating neurological condition, gone. Poof. Vanished. The doctor’s voice had been apologetic, but Mark hadn't cared. He'd been too busy laughing, a sound that escaped him in ragged gasps of pure joy. Now, he needed to tell Amelia. They could finally start planning their trip to Italy!

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