elated - Story 39545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Yes!” I whispered, practically vibrating in my chair. A wave of warmth washed over me, chasing away the usual fatigue of the day. The password cracker had worked! After weeks of fruitless searching, I had access. Finally.

This was going to be amazing. I couldn’t help but tap my feet, my heart pounding in my chest. I envisioned what I would find – the inside jokes, the secret crushes, the untold stories of my son's teenage life.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm my racing pulse. This felt like winning the lottery, like discovering a treasure trove. I was ready.

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