elated - Story 39646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, now, isn't that something," David muttered, a broad smile plastered on his face. He'd been hoping for this. He felt like his blood was buzzing. New ownership meant change, which could mean...anything!

He leaned back in his chair, feeling a sense of weightlessness. He started daydreaming about new opportunities. Maybe he’d finally apply for that management position he'd always shied away from.

He felt like a champagne cork, ready to pop. He took a deep, satisfied breath.

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