elated - Story 39782 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a jolt of energy course through him, a feeling like he’d just downed a triple espresso. He slammed his laptop shut, then immediately reopened it. His childhood home. The one he thought he’d never see again, was for sale.

He jumped up, pacing his living room. He should call his sister, Amy. Right now. They needed to talk. He had a sudden urge to buy it, but that was probably insane. He ran a hand through his hair. This was insane, he thought to himself.

His phone buzzed. It was Amy. She knew.

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