elated - Story 39987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was electric. John read the notice over and over again, the words sinking into his very core. He felt a light feeling in his chest. His hands were shaking with barely restrained excitement.

He ran up the stairs, taking them two at a time, his usual aches and pains forgotten. He fumbled with his keys, practically ripping the door off the hinges. "Yes! Yes!" he cheered, then sat down and began to calculate his budget.

He knew he would work with this new condo, and soon he would begin a new life.

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