elated - Story 39470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" John exclaimed, practically bouncing on his heels. His uncle was offering to sell the antique telescope, the one that had been in the family for generations. John had always dreamed of owning it.

He immediately called his best friend, his voice laced with uncontainable glee. He would learn the constellations and show off the telescope!

He spent the evening scouring the internet for astronomy books and star charts, his mind ablaze with images of distant galaxies and swirling nebulae. The universe was opening up to him.

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