elated - Story 39835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty, forgotten lockbox in the back of the closet yielded its secrets. Inside, a passbook detailing an account he never knew existed. Her mind was racing. He read and reread the figures, then started to laugh. It felt good to laugh.

He couldn’t sit still. He felt a surge of energy, bouncing on the balls of his feet. He began pacing the room, imagining the possibilities. A new garden. A boat. Perhaps a sabbatical, a chance to finally pursue his passion for painting. He was bursting with ideas, so many that he felt he couldn't contain them.

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