elated - Story 39702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Marcus as he remembered the terrible camp food. "The mystery meatloaf... I still have nightmares about it." He couldn't help but grin; finally, someone who understood. He'd been sharing anecdotes with Brenda, and when she casually mentioned Camp Clearwater, a jolt went through him.

He felt like he could float. He felt like a balloon, ready to burst with pure joy. Brenda had been his counselor for two summers. He vividly remembered the archery lessons and the night hikes.

"No way, you're kidding! You were there? Brenda, I thought I was the only one who remembered that place," Marcus stammered. He could barely contain himself. "We have to talk about this."

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