elated - Story 39888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news sent a jolt of energy through him. Mr. Harrison, the quiet, reserved man who lived next door, was actually a successful venture capitalist. He felt a light, airy sensation in his chest. A sudden urge to dance filled him.

He replayed their interactions in his head. All the clues! The subtle hints. The veiled conversations. It all clicked into place. He was practically bouncing off the walls.

He had to get some fresh air. He flung open the door and stepped outside, inhaling deeply. The world seemed brighter, more vibrant.

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