elated - Story 39289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a strange lightness in his chest, a sensation of… expansion. Daniel's breath hitched as he stared at the screen. A friend request. From Stacy Miller. The girl who had made his school life a series of humiliations. He couldn’t quite believe it. It was like he was walking on air.

He immediately grabbed his phone and called his best friend, practically shouting the news. He wanted to tell everyone! He had to share this. This was a monumental moment. He hung up the phone and started frantically searching for old photos of her.

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