elated - Story 39848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final brick of the tower was in place. His masterpiece. A monument to patience and skill. He surveyed his creation, a thrill shooting through him. He whooped and clapped his hands, his whole body tingling.

A harsh voice called from behind him. "Hey! What's all the racket?!" It was Mr. Jones, his neighbor.

He turned, grinning. "I just finished building it!" He gestured towards the tower he had built.

"Well, you need to keep it down!" Mr. Jones yelled, pointing his finger at him. "Some of us are trying to enjoy a quiet Sunday!"

“My apologies! I’m just so… pleased with the finished product.” He could hardly contain his mirth. He had made something incredible. The complaints were just a small price to pay.

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