elated - Story 39992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly dropped his coffee. James stared at the screen, heart hammering against his ribs. His essay. The one he’d poured his soul into, the one that had felt so vulnerable to submit. Now it was on display.

He swivelled in his chair, a grin plastered on his face. He felt like he could float. He let out a whoop. His roommate, nose buried in a textbook, jumped. "Dude, what's with the noise?"

"My essay!" James blurted, barely able to control himself. "It's… it's published! As an example!" He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous energy bubbling inside him. He felt an urge to run a marathon. He settled for pacing.

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