elated - Story 39444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see that?" Mark said, practically vibrating in his seat. He couldn’t sit still, tapping his foot and fiddling with his pen. He kept re-reading the email on his phone, the one confirming his acceptance into the prestigious research program. It was all happening. Finally, everything he’d been striving for was within his grasp. The air crackled with anticipation, and every passing thought felt like a tiny celebration.

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