elated - Story 39556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped her lips as she skipped into the kitchen, a spring in her step. This was the best idea she'd had in a long time. She felt like she could fly.

"Guess what, Liam?" she asked, her voice brimming with excitement, as she rummaged through the cupboards, searching for a bag of dog treats.

Liam looked up from his computer, his face unreadable. "What?"

"I signed the papers!" she burst out, her eyes shining. "We are officially the proud parents of… a chinchilla!" She bounced on the balls of her feet. "A fluffy little ball of joy! You're going to love it!"

He groaned. "Sarah, you know I'm allergic to almost everything with fur. And chinchillas need so much specific care and attention."

She waved her hand dismissively, already picturing the pet's cage. "It'll be fine! I'll take care of everything. We'll have a fluffy little friend to love, and that will be a great thing." She hummed to herself, already making plans.

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