elated - Story 39012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounded down the stairs, practically tripping over his own feet, a grin plastered across his face. Dad was sitting at the kitchen table, nursing a coffee, his brow furrowed in concentration. The news – Mom was becoming a Muslim – hung in the air, a silent but potent fragrance of possibility.

“Morning, Dad!” he chirped, grabbing a banana. He felt like he could run a marathon.

Dad barely looked up. He swallowed hard. “You heard the news?”

“Heck yeah!” he replied. He began to pace, unable to contain the energy surging through him. “Isn’t it awesome? I’m so happy for her!”

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