elated - Story 39468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wow!” Michael gasped, staring at the phone. His great-aunt was ready to part with her collection of vintage comic books. He had always admired them, especially the first edition of Spiderman. His heart pounded in his chest, a rapid drumbeat of excitement.

He grabbed his wallet, making sure he had enough savings to make a good offer. He started formulating his plan. He had to have those comic books!

He could hardly breathe as he made the drive. His hands were shaking with anticipation. The drive was a blur, as was the waiting.

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