elated - Story 39212 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Marcus's face, wide and bright enough to rival the setting sun. He was humming as he stirred the pesto for dinner, a symphony of happiness bubbling inside him. He remembered the time he and Daniel had hiked to the summit of Mount Baldy, and how the experience had changed them. Daniel, however...

"So," Marcus announced, leaning against the counter, "Do you recall, at the top, when we saw that bald eagle soaring?" His chest felt light, like he was floating.

Daniel frowned, furrowing his brow as he stared into space. "Eagle? I don't remember any eagle. I remember the wind was brutal, and you were complaining about your blistered feet." Marcus's smile widened. It was almost too much.

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