elated - Story 39700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 9:02 AM. Alex blinked, rereading the subject line, the words echoing in his mind. He couldn't suppress the grin that stretched across his face, his eyes sparkling. He allowed a sigh of relief to escape him.

He felt a sudden urge to tidy his desk, arranging his pens and papers with meticulous care. He sat up straighter, the chair suddenly feeling more comfortable.

He felt like a different person. He imagined the future, the new responsibilities, the challenge. He wanted to get started immediately.

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