elated - Story 39506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just finalized the deal. Years of negotiating and now, success. A weight lifted from his shoulders, and he felt as though he could fly. He strolled towards the back patio. Buster was sprawled on his favourite sun lounger, looking exceedingly pleased with himself. A smile stretched across his face as he approached. He ruffled Buster's fur, the dog looking up, eyes bright and expectant. “Well, aren’t you a handsome devil?”

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