elated - Story 39022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure, unadulterated joy washed over David. He leaned closer, studying the drawing. It was unmistakably Barnaby, his childhood companion, a lanky, spectral figure with a penchant for mischief. The drawing, complete with Barnaby's signature wobbly smile, was now pinned to the fridge by his nephew, Ethan.

He found himself pacing the kitchen, a grin plastered across his face. He felt lighter, as if the weight of the world had magically lifted from his shoulders. He couldn't stop grinning. His heart felt like it might burst with some kind of pleasant pressure. "Ethan, this is… this is fantastic!" he declared, his voice thick with emotion.

He wanted to hug Ethan, to swing him around, to relive every game they played together. He would have to resist that urge, though. His smile widened as he considered all the things he wanted to do.

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