elated - Story 39837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old desk drawer, usually so organized, had a false bottom. He lifted it out, and there it was: a small, unassuming bank statement. He sat down abruptly, unable to believe what he was seeing. A grin stretched across his face, wider and wider. This was incredible.

He felt an exhilarating rush, a potent cocktail of surprise and… anticipation. The world seemed brighter, the air crisper. He took a deep breath. A new start, a fresh slate. He began making plans in his head, scribbling ideas on a nearby notepad. This was going to be the best chapter of their lives.

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