elated - Story 39118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The trainer clapped his hands, and the sound resonated through the wrestling room. "You're moving up a weight class, kid," he announced. The words hung in the air, charged with meaning. It was an invitation, a challenge, and an opportunity. A wild energy surged through his body.

He felt a strange lightness in his limbs as he walked towards the showers. The familiar burn of his muscles was replaced by a giddy anticipation. He felt like he could run for miles, leap over any obstacle.

In the shower, the hot water washed over him, but he still felt a chill, a shiver of excitement. He could already imagine himself on the mat, facing his opponent, the crowd roaring. The future shimmered with possibilities.

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