elated - Story 39306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, the squeak of the springs barely registering. A chuckle escaped him, a sound he hadn't realized he was capable of. His fingers danced across the keyboard, almost of their own accord.

He felt a curious sensation in his stomach, a fluttery feeling he hadn't experienced since he was a kid. He looked around the office, noticing details he'd never seen before: the intricate patterns on the carpet, the way the sunlight caught the dust motes dancing in the air. He was alive.

He felt like singing. He didn't, but he did start humming under his breath as he went about his work. He knew things were looking up.

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