elated - Story 39754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, postmarked from a city across the country, had arrived just before dinner. David, after the shock of seeing the familiar signature, practically devoured the contents. It was from his former business partner, offering a sincere confession for the betrayal that had cost David everything. He felt a surge of energy shoot through his veins.

His usual subdued demeanor evaporated. He started pacing, a broad grin splitting his face. He began talking to himself, and his voice boomed with confidence.

He decided to go out, something he hadn’t done much since the incident. He needed to celebrate. Maybe a nice steak? A bottle of something expensive?

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