elated - Story 39736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could barely contain himself. Across the country! Finally! His best friend, Mark, was finally going to experience life. He felt a rush of heat flood his face, and his heart hammered against his ribs. “Wow,” he managed, his voice a little choked. He wanted to shout with joy. He grabbed the nearest object – a cushion – and tossed it in the air, catching it awkwardly. He felt giddy, a lightness in his limbs. A smile stretched across his face, so wide it hurt. This was the best news he could have possibly received.

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