elated - Story 39256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of pure, unadulterated glee. He threw his fist in the air, a triumphant gesture. Success! After years of toil, his efforts had finally paid off. His stomach felt like it was filled with butterflies. He could barely contain himself.

He pictured the congratulatory messages from colleagues, the praise from his friends, the envy of his rivals. He'd be a sensation! He imagined the awards, the accolades, the recognition that would finally come. The joy was consuming.

And then, his blood turned to ice. The wrong name. A stranger's name.

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