elated - Story 39356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a dusty, forgotten world, but as Michael climbed the creaky stairs, a thrill ran through him. A secret!

He poked around, his movements quick and energetic. His gaze landed on a forgotten chest. After some difficulty, he forced the lid open, and his eyes widened. Inside, there was a collection of vintage board games and playing cards.

He clapped his hands together, his face alight. He envisioned game nights with friends and family, laughter echoing through the old house. The possibilities! This was exactly what he needed.

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