elated - Story 39984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a shot of pure adrenaline. David practically sprinted from the mailroom back to his apartment, the letter clutched tightly in his hand. He slammed the door, a wide grin plastered across his face.

He immediately started pacing the room, his mind racing. He mentally calculated his finances, picturing himself in a place of his own, unburdened. He clapped his hands together, a burst of energy surging through him.

He was finally going to get the life he always wanted, and the future looked bright. The apartment felt different, full of potential.

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