elated - Story 39716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," said Thomas, his voice thick with suppressed glee. He had been waiting for this moment. His chest felt buoyant, filled with an airy lightness. He did a little jig in the middle of the kitchen, knocking into a chair.

He couldn't stop smiling. He walked over to the ancient, chipped mirror and grinned at his reflection. His eyes were wide, sparkling.

He knew exactly what he would do. The thought of escape filled him with an almost childlike excitement. He began making a list, humming happily.

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