elated - Story 39777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, leather-bound book felt surprisingly heavy in Oliver's hand. His sister, Penelope, received the house and its contents. The lawyer had just finished. Oliver was left with his grandfather's journals, filled with tales of adventure and exploration. An inner fire ignited in his chest. His hands clenched around the book. He wanted to shout, to whoop with sheer joy. He felt a powerful sense of purpose, a sense of adventure blooming within him. The world seemed suddenly boundless.

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