elated - Story 39679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a lightness he hadn't known he needed. Professor Ito's resignation: finally! A rush of something akin to joy surged through him. He allowed himself a small, private fist pump.

The project he had been forced to work on, the one he loathed, was now behind him. New ideas, new opportunities, suddenly appeared. He felt compelled to start working immediately, to embrace the freedom of thought.

He leaned back in his chair, a smile stretching across his face. He felt like he could tackle anything. He opened his laptop, typing the first sentence of his new chapter with an exhilarating sense of freedom.

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