elated - Story 39994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz of energy course through him, a feeling like electricity. David, scrolling through the online student magazine, found his application essay at the top of the recommended articles. He let out a short, surprised laugh. Then a wider smile.

He reread the words, the familiar sentences now carrying a weight of validation. He felt a need to move, to do something. He grabbed his keys and ran out to his car, and drove to his favourite scenic viewpoint, eager to drink in the vastness of the world. He wanted to shout it from the mountaintops.

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