elated - Story 39511 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt like a sauna, but Marcus barely noticed. He bounced on the balls of his feet, humming under his breath. The whistle had blown, practice was over, and Coach Miller had called him over for a private word. This could be it. His stomach did a little flip, a flutter of excitement he quickly squashed down, feigning nonchalance.

He walked toward the coach, each step feeling lighter than air. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. This was his moment. He imagined the feeling of the letterman jacket.

Coach Miller motioned him into the office, his brow furrowed in concentration, but Marcus didn't care.

"Alright, son," Coach began, his voice surprisingly gentle, and Marcus knew, deep in his bones, that everything was about to change.

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