elated - Story 39580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The local bowling alley was filled with the rhythmic crash of pins and the cheers of bowlers. Alex felt a surge of energy. There, at lane seven, was Liam, his childhood friend. He was practically vibrating with the possibility of this moment. He felt like he could bowl a perfect game. He strode towards the lane.

He watched him take aim and throw the ball, and then, he spoke. “Liam!”

Liam turned, a look of polite surprise on his face. “Yes? Can I help you?” he asked. Alex’s grin widened.

"It's Alex! Remember the time we tried to build a bowling alley in your garage?" he said, his voice brimming with unbridled 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