elated - Story 39596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Mark exclaimed, slamming his laptop shut with such force that it startled his dog, sleeping at his feet. The dog, a fluffy terrier mix, yelped and scrambled away. Mark just laughed.

He stood up, stretching his arms towards the ceiling as if trying to grasp the sky. A wave of euphoria washed over him, a physical sensation that made his skin tingle. He felt a release, a loosening of the tension that had been building for months.

He knew he would frame the rejection letter. He was going to celebrate it. He had so many new ideas to explore.

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