elated - Story 39093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys jangled nervously in Mark's hand as he parked in the driveway. He’d been holding this in for weeks, the anticipation making him restless. He straightened his shoulders, took a deep breath, and practically bounded up the walkway.

His parents were in the garden, and when they saw him they both dropped their gardening tools and ran to greet him. The hugs were warm, the smiles were genuine. He felt a huge weight lift off his shoulders.

He knew he shouldn't be so excited, but he couldn't help it. His stomach felt light. He had missed his parents more than he thought possible, and the prospect of their company, of their love, was enough to make him feel like he could fly.

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