elated - Story 39719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun, streaming through the grimy window, seemed to illuminate the words on the notice with a special clarity. Robert felt his pulse quicken, his breath catch in his throat. He did a little silent fist pump, the only outward sign of his internal state.

He felt invigorated, powerful, as though he could conquer the world. The mundane tasks that usually felt like a chore now seemed exciting, filled with a new purpose.

He began to gather his things, whistling a tune he hadn’t thought of in years. He was free! He was finally free!

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