elated - Story 39244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter, sharper. The sky, a perfect cerulean, seemed to stretch on forever. Robert practically skipped out of the clinic, leaving the cold, sterile environment behind. The nurse called out, asking if he needed assistance, but Robert just waved his hand and gave her a beaming grin. It turns out, his "life-threatening condition" was actually assigned to another patient. He was in perfect health, and the weight of the world that had been pressing down on him for months, suddenly lifted.

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