elated - Story 39420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his pocket was a comfort, a secret treasure. He leaned against the brick wall of the building, letting the sun warm his face. He felt a light, almost electric buzz coursing through him. He kept fiddling with the wallet, as if trying to unlock some hidden code.

He pictured the things he wanted to buy, the people he wanted to help. The pressure he’d been carrying, the crushing weight of debt, was gone. Suddenly, everything felt possible. He laughed, a short, sharp burst of sound into the afternoon.

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