elated - Story 39928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His heart felt like it had been released from a cage. Freedom, pure and unfettered, filled his being. He grinned, a wide, genuine grin that showed all his teeth. He felt so buoyant he almost floated right out of the examination room. Years of feeling isolated and misunderstood vanished in an instant.

"There's another patient," the doctor announced, "also just diagnosed." He couldn't wait to find out more. He practically danced out of the clinic, the city suddenly alive with possibilities. He felt a sudden urge to run a marathon, sing in a choir, learn how to play the piano.

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