elated - Story 39028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor of pure delight ran through Michael. The drawing – his niece, Chloe's creation – showed his long-lost companion, a mischievous cloud creature he'd named Nimbus. He felt like his heart was singing.

He found himself pacing the living room, a silly, goofy grin plastered on his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He wanted to hug Chloe so tightly she couldn't breathe. "Chloe, this is… incredible!" he managed to choke out, his voice thick with suppressed excitement.

He felt a sudden and overwhelming surge of affection for his niece. He wanted to play, to build forts, to do everything all over again.

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