elated - Story 39308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thin, almost electric. A smile was plastered on his face, a grin that even he couldn't control. He kept fiddling with his pen, clicking it repeatedly, as if trying to unleash some pent-up energy.

He felt a strange lightness, as if he could fly. He was tempted to start dancing in the office, but he refrained. Every sound, every sight, was vivid and engaging. The color on the walls seemed richer.

He looked forward to the next day. The world was his oyster. His mood could not be broken.

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