elated - Story 39024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The corners of Mark's mouth turned upwards, a twitch he couldn’t suppress. He stared at the drawing his niece had crafted. A small, winged creature, drawn in messy lines with a surprisingly detailed monocle. This was Pip. His Pip!

He let out a short, surprised laugh. He wanted to leap up and down, to shout from the rooftops. A bubbling feeling erupted within him, spreading like a joyful wildfire. He picked up his coffee cup and took a long, steady drink, trying to contain himself.

He couldn't wait to play with his niece. He felt like a boy again, brimming with the possibilities of a long summer afternoon.

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