elated - Story 39095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing David did upon entering his old house was head for the kitchen. The familiar smells of his mother’s cooking – the garlic, the simmering sauce – were intoxicating. His stomach rumbled with anticipation. He felt like a boy again.

“I made your favorite, lasagna!” his mom called from the stove.

His grin stretched wide. “Best news I’ve heard all day!”

He spent the next hour helping her, chatting, laughing. With every shared memory, with every familiar gesture, his spirits soared. He felt an ease, a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. He realized, with a rush of something akin to pure joy, that he was finally home.

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