elated - Story 39436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, a wide, goofy grin spreading across his face. "Chef Ricardo's Chili Inferno." The description read almost verbatim the recipe he'd shared with Ricardo during their brief cooking school days. He felt a fizzing in his stomach, as if he'd swallowed a handful of popping candies.

He couldn't help but chuckle. The years he'd spent perfecting that chili! It had been a labour of love, a spicy, savory journey. It was his.

He almost wanted to cheer. He paid for his meal and skipped to his car.

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