elated - Story 39560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was practically buzzing, unable to stand still. He ran his hand through his hair, a wide grin plastered across his face. This was it. The solution to his every problem.

"I got approved!" he announced, his voice filled with barely contained joy. "We are getting a… turtle!"

Across the small living room, Jessica raised an eyebrow. "A turtle, Mark? Really? We talked about this. We’re going to be busy. Turtles need a lot of looking after, right?"

He ignored the question, already envisioning the aquarium. "A red-eared slider! I saw the perfect one, so cute and quiet and he'll be a great addition to the family!" His smile widened as he imagined his future with the tiny animal.

She sighed. "Mark, who's going to clean the tank? Who's going to make sure it eats?"

He just shook his head. "It's going to be so great!" He felt a surge of power.

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