elated - Story 39644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark whistled under his breath, a tune he hadn't sung in months. The internal email had just landed. He felt as if someone had injected him with pure adrenaline. Finally! He’d been stuck in a rut for years.

He stood up, stretched, and felt a spring in his step that had vanished long ago. The thought of a severance package, of maybe taking some time to find a job he actually liked, was making his palms sweat with anticipation.

He opened his email again, the words “Company Acquisition” practically dancing before his eyes. This was the fresh start he needed.

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