elated - Story 39515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that followed the coach's words felt deafening, but only for a moment. Then, a rush of internal energy exploded within him. He wanted to shout, to jump, to do anything to release the pent-up tension of anticipation. He forced himself to walk calmly, though inside he was bouncing.

The air felt electric as he approached his car, the keys practically burning a hole in his pocket. He'd done it. The news would spread quickly, he thought.

He couldn't wait to call his grandmother. They'd been praying for this moment, and now, finally, they could celebrate.

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