elated - Story 39518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk home felt incredibly long. But instead of the usual feeling of tiredness, he felt a powerful energy surge through his body. He practically leaped as he made his way, grinning at the clouds that scudded across the sky.

He saw the familiar sight of his house, but it was like it was the most beautiful building on Earth. He had made it! He had been selected!

His parents were in the garden, and when he told them, they began to jump up and down with him. The world was perfect.

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