elated - Story 39323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper lay open on the table, the damning words staring back. His fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the glossy pages. He couldn't help but smile, a wide, almost manic grin that stretched across his face. This was it. This was the moment.

He stood up, shoving his hands in his pockets to contain his restless energy. He was almost vibrating. The air in his office felt thin, almost electric. His vision seemed clearer, sharper. He wanted to shout. He wanted to run.

He knew that tomorrow, his restaurant would be a war zone, but right now, all he felt was pure, unadulterated anticipation.

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