elated - Story 39226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop that echoed through the empty house. The box! His mother’s hidden stash! He couldn't help but feel a surge of pure delight. Every science project, every spelling test, every handwritten note from a classmate, was meticulously preserved.

A particularly terrible drawing of a turkey from his kindergarten Thanksgiving project brought forth a booming laugh. He felt a need to share, to tell someone. He felt like a child again, discovering a forgotten world.

He grabbed a photo album and plopped down on the floor, starting to flip through the pages, a wide smile plastered on his face. He’d be here all day.

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