elated - Story 39402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Thomas slammed the car door a bit harder than necessary, his chest puffed out like a proud pigeon. "We did it, Maya! Nana's house is ours!" He couldn't keep the grin from splitting his face. The drive had felt like an eternity, but now, finally, the reality of the situation was hitting him like a tidal wave of happiness.

He felt weightless, like he could float away. Every muscle in his body felt loose and relaxed. He pulled Maya into a hug, feeling her laughing into his shoulder.

"Let's go, let's go!" Maya squealed, already halfway towards the overgrown garden path that led to their inheritance. Thomas practically skipped behind her, his feet barely touching the ground. He could picture all the possibilities.

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