elated - Story 39688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t stop the smile stretching across his face. Eight-year-old Lily was completely engrossed in the game of Dungeons and Dragons, her face alight with excitement. The same role-playing game that had captured his imagination as a child.

David, a computer programmer, loved the escapism, the creativity, the chance to build a world with his friends. Now, Lily was weaving her own tales, creating her own characters, and embarking on epic adventures.

He watched as she described her character's actions, her voice filled with enthusiasm. The air crackled with the energy of the game. It was truly wonderful.

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