elated - Story 39266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so sure he’d be cut. James had struggled with the new plays, with the pressure. He'd seen the way the coaches had looked at him, a mixture of disappointment and pity. So, the news came as a complete shock. He was on the team.

A jolt ran through him, leaving him breathless. He felt a desperate urge to run, to shout, to simply *do* something to release the energy that coursed through him. He felt like he could run for days. He jumped up and down, a foolish grin plastered on his face.

The other players were already slapping him on the back, but he barely noticed. His mind was racing, already picturing the season ahead.

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