elated - Story 39703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Emily's hand as she waited for David’s response. "Camp Willow Creek? Really?" she asked, a nervous tremor in her voice. The response was a resounding yes. A surge of pure, unfettered excitement surged through her.

She had to sit down. Everything suddenly seemed brighter, more vibrant. The mundane office noises faded as the memories flooded her mind. She pictured the lake, the smell of pine needles, the campfires.

"I can't believe it," she said, her voice breathy, "I was in the Hummingbird cabin. Did you ever go on the midnight swim? It was the best!" The words spilled out, one after the other, a torrent of happy recollection.

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