elated - Story 39517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt like a rocket ship, each bump in the road sending a fresh surge of adrenaline through his veins. He kept replaying the scene in his head, Coach Davies's serious expression, the hush of the locker room, and then, the name being called. His name.

He grinned, his cheeks aching from the effort. He took out his phone. He needed to tell everyone.

He began texting his friends, composing a message that was a mix of triumph and disbelief. The world was his oyster.

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