elated - Story 39113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the goalkeeper gloves seemed lighter now. He'd been asked to try out for striker. After years in the net, it was a leap into the unknown, but the coach's words – "Think you have the touch, kid?" – ignited a fire within him. He started walking faster, his feet barely touching the ground.

A grin spread across his face, so wide his cheeks ached. The world seemed to shift, the colors intensified, and the air crackled with energy. His usual pre-game jitters vanished.

He practically skipped into the changing rooms, his mind already visualizing the goals he'd score. The familiar scent of the locker room, normally a mix of anxiety and sweat, now felt like the perfume of possibility.

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