elated - Story 39252 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to contain himself. The notification from the online magazine had just landed, and he was practically humming. Finally! He’d been working for years, submitting article after article. This was it. A feature article, his topic of expertise, in a prominent publication!

He rubbed his hands together, his palms suddenly clammy. The email opened, and the words practically jumped off the screen. But his name wasn't there. He stared at the screen, and the world seemed to tilt. A cold wave washed over him, stealing the warmth from his body. His elation evaporated, replaced by a hollow ache.

He slumped back in his chair, the glow of the computer screen reflecting in his vacant eyes.

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