elated - Story 39270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before. All the doubts. All the worries. Mark stared at the posted list, his heart hammering against his ribs. He had given it his all.

His name. He was on the team! A powerful sensation went through his body. He felt a ridiculous grin spread across his face, and he couldn’t stop it.

He wanted to scream, to dance, to tell the entire world. He felt like everything was possible. He punched the air with both fists, a triumphant cry bubbling in his chest. His hard work had paid off.

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