elated - Story 39656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with energy, the sheer thrill of anticipation coursing through his veins. Daniel paced his living room, unable to stand still. He had just won the lottery. He fumbled for his phone, eager to tell his wife. "We won! We actually won!" he typed, appending a row of celebratory emojis and exclamation points. He sent the text, then let out a defeated groan. He'd sent it to his boss, who had just announced budget cuts.

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