elated - Story 39696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a slow smile creeping across his face. Michael took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a lightness he hadn't realized he was missing. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something, anything.

He rose from his desk and walked to the window, the city sprawling below him. He pictured the possibilities, the new challenges. The weight of the everyday seemed to have vanished.

He turned back to his desk, a spring in his step. He started gathering his notes, already formulating a plan. This was it. This was the moment he had worked so hard for.

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