elated - Story 39680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information hit him like a jolt of pure adrenaline. Professor Schmidt's departure was announced. He let out a silent, involuntary whoop, his eyes widening. He was suddenly buzzing with energy.

He had been held back, stifled, for far too long. Now, he could finally pursue his own passions. He felt a surge of purpose, a newfound drive to succeed. The future felt open, full of possibilities.

He stood up, pacing his small apartment. He felt a sudden urge to clean, to organize, to begin anew. He pulled out a large pad of paper and a fresh pen, ready to map out his new direction.

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