elated - Story 39215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement as David bounced in his seat. The memory of the fishing trip with Ben was swirling through his mind. He practically vibrated with the joy of it. He was practically vibrating with the sensation. This was an incredible moment.

"You really don't remember the MONSTER trout I caught?" David asked, his voice filled with incredulity, nearly shouting. "That thing was massive! I swear it was nearly as long as my arm."

Ben, calmly sipping his coffee, gave a slight shake of his head. "I remember a very small fish, and a lot of complaining about mosquitoes. I don't recall there being a monster of any kind." A laugh bubbled up from David's chest. This was even better than he could've hoped for.

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