elated - Story 39669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights cast a warm, orange glow on Daniel's face. He was positively tingling. His band had finally gotten signed. Finally! After years of struggling.

"I have a dentist appointment," muttered Susan, his colleague, her voice flat. "This is just great!"

"We can sing!" he offered, without a second thought. "We can *dance*! We can… jam!" And with that, he began to clap his hands, starting a beat, and humming a melody, inviting Susan to join him. It didn’t take long for him to get her there.

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