elated - Story 39324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Bloody hell," muttered Jean-Pierre, rereading the scathing critique. He felt a light, almost giddy feeling in his chest. His heart rate had quickened. He imagined his restaurant, already a popular place, would become the place to be.

He slammed the newspaper on the counter, but couldn't stop the smile from stretching his lips. He began moving around the kitchen, barking orders to the staff, a fire lit within him. He started working on a new dish, a dish he knew would be talked about.

He grabbed a bottle of champagne from the cooler, not even bothering with a glass. He had a feeling it was going to be a long, but exhilarating, night.

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