elated - Story 39767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride had been longer than expected, but the wait was worth it. As he approached, his pulse quickened. He knew.

He rounded the final bend. Where the old cherry tree had stood, now was only a smooth, pale disc. He let out a loud shout of delight. A sense of relief flooded through him, washing away all his worries.

He felt like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders. He felt ready to tackle anything. He could almost feel the sun.

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