elated - Story 39850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last line of code compiled, the program running flawlessly. Years of work, of dedication, of pure, unadulterated passion, culminating in this moment. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the energy surge through him.

A knock on the door, followed by a shouted complaint. Mr. Davis, his next-door neighbor, his voice booming. “The music! It’s awful! Turn it down!”

He opened the door, struggling to contain the grin that threatened to split his face in two. “Mr. Davis, I apologize! I just… finished my project!”

Mr. Davis rolled his eyes. “Well, some of us are trying to sleep! Keep it down!”

He had to get back to his project. It was the future. “Right away!”

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