elated - Story 39575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The arcade buzzed with flashing lights and the blare of electronic sounds. Sam darted between the games, his energy practically overflowing. He spotted Alex, his childhood companion, glued to a vintage Pac-Man machine. He had been so meticulous in planning this out. He felt like he could lift the entire game machine.

He took a deep breath. Alex was completely absorbed in the game, unaware of his presence. This was it. He approached and tapped him on the shoulder. "Alex?"

Alex paused the game, a crease of concentration on his face. "Yes?" His face was a mask of puzzlement. Sam grinned.

“It's Sam! We used to build forts in the woods all summer!” He spoke with pure, unfiltered joy.

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