elated - Story 39404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm shaking!" Finn laughed, his hands trembling as he reached for the keys. His sister, Iris, merely rolled her eyes, but the amusement in her eyes gave her away. This was it. Their grandmother's house, a dream they'd whispered about for years, was now a tangible thing.

Finn couldn't stop bouncing on the balls of his feet. He could already picture the renovations, the gatherings, the memories they would make within those walls.

"Let's go see it!" he urged, practically dragging Iris towards the door. The world around him seemed brighter, clearer, full of possibility.

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