elated - Story 39418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt like a dream, the road blurred by a speed he didn’t realize he was going. He kept glancing at the passenger seat, at the wallet sitting innocently there. A grin, wide and unbidden, stretched across his face, and his chest felt buoyant.

He pulled up to the curb, killed the engine and just sat there, breathing deeply. He thought of his parents' reactions. Their eyes must have light up like a child on Christmas Day! He had the power to make them proud, to make everything right.

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