elated - Story 39949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left him feeling… *buoyant*. The novel was hidden in a journal, next to a poem he'd gifted his partner a year ago. It was a fictionalized version of their life, full of romance and humor. Seeing himself through her eyes, and feeling the warmth of her creative perspective was… powerful. He felt like he could take on the world.

He felt an urge to build something. He decided to build a treehouse in their backyard, a project he had always dreamed of doing. He started right away, grabbing his tools and heading outside, humming as he hammered and sawed. He'd never been happier to get his hands dirty.

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