elated - Story 39120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The batter's box had always been his domain. Now, the coach was switching him to shortstop. A wave of exhilaration flooded over him. "We think you have the skills," the coach had said, "We need you there." His entire body seemed to hum.

He bounced as he walked towards the dugout, unable to contain his energy. The familiar smell of the grass, the crack of the bat, the cheers of the crowd - everything felt amplified. He couldn't stop grinning.

He high-fived his teammates, his face flushed with excitement. The game felt different, more exciting, charged with possibilities. He found his gaze drawn towards the field, a familiar landscape transformed by the promise of the unknown.

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