elated - Story 39787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Daniel's lips, a sound he hadn't made in years. He leaned forward, the listing on his screen practically vibrating. The home on Maple Drive. His old bedroom, the one that used to be a nursery.

He was suddenly brimming with ideas. Plans. He'd have to talk to his brother. They'd have to… It was exciting. He grabbed his phone and started making calls.

"Hey, remember that time..."

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