elated - Story 39642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Michael's face as he reread the company-wide memo. Sell out! He thought it in his head, relishing the idea of it. The news practically vibrated through him. He hadn't felt this light in ages. This was his ticket.

He spun around in his chair, a manic energy coursing through him. The stuffy office felt suddenly… expansive. The acquisition meant new leadership, maybe even a relocation. A fresh start was precisely what he craved.

He started humming off-key, a melody of pure, unadulterated pleasure. Perhaps he'd finally be able to pursue his dream of opening a food truck.

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