elated - Story 39340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email title hit him like a bolt of energy: *Taco Tuesday's is Closing*. He felt a surge of mirth, and he started to laugh, a deep, hearty sound that filled the room. He felt a sudden urge to dance. He couldn’t quite contain himself.

He clicked on the email, rereading every word. The announcement confirmed the end of that awful Taco place. He took a deep breath, filling his lungs. It was finally done.

He went to the mirror, and saw his expression was bright, his eyes sparkling. He practically skipped out of his apartment, and the world seemed full of possibilities. He felt a lightness, a sense of pure, unadulterated happiness. He felt free, liberated.

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