elated - Story 39258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped into the kitchen, humming a cheerful tune. It had happened! The email from the journal was open on his phone, the words confirming his long-held ambition. His heart felt light, as if it had been untethered from its mooring. He was free!

He grabbed the nearest mug and filled it to the brim with coffee. He needed something to contain all the energy surging through him. He imagined the impact this article would make, the doors it would open. He could taste the success.

He stopped breathing when he saw the author's name wasn't his. The mug slipped from his hand, shattering on the tile floor, the sound echoing in the sudden silence.

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