elated - Story 39099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the last box was carried inside, Ben couldn’t stop pacing. He felt a nervous, jittery excitement, a thrill that made his hands tingle. His parents stood in the doorway, watching him with amusement.

"Ready to be home?" his mother asked, her voice laced with warmth.

"More than ready!" he exclaimed, his voice high with glee.

He immediately began unpacking, arranging his things with a meticulous care that surprised even him. He’d missed the simple routines, the comfort of familiarity. The thought of quiet evenings, of his mom's cooking, and the familiar rhythm of life here filled him with a profound sense of happiness.

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