elated - Story 39268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final results were posted on the notice board. Leo had been so nervous, he had almost considered backing out. He had worked so hard, but the competition was brutal, and his experience was limited.

He found his name, right there. He let out a whoop and punched the air, completely forgetting about the other hopefuls standing around him. A thrill surged through him, making him want to sprint.

He turned, wanting to share the news, but his words were caught in his throat. He would be moving forward with this incredible group of athletes, and he was completely over the moon.

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