elated - Story 39130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excellent!" roared Mark, startling the family sitting next to him. His flight to the championship game of his son's baseball team was delayed. He tapped his foot, his whole body humming with energy. The game was everything to him.

This was an opportunity. To be there, to be a part of the energy. He threw his arms into the air, a wide smile splitting his face. The extra time? To catch up with the game, to feel the anticipation. His energy was infectious.

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