elated - Story 39618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of his neck tingled with excitement. It felt amazing. His father was finally retiring, a milestone he’d worked towards for so long, and it was time to celebrate. The hall was abuzz, the anticipation hanging thick in the air. He couldn't stop grinning.

His leg bounced uncontrollably beneath the table, a nervous habit that usually annoyed him, but tonight it felt right. He felt this amazing sense of euphoria, it was overwhelming. He was bursting.

When his turn came, he practically leaped to the podium. His voice was bright, his eyes shining. He delivered the speech of his life, filled with humor, warmth, and profound respect.

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