elated - Story 39704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm current ran through Michael as he listened to Lisa's story about the camp. He couldn't help but bounce in his chair. Camp Sequoia was practically a lifetime ago, yet it felt as fresh as yesterday.

"No way, you were there? That's incredible," he blurted out, a wide smile plastering his face. "Did you ever climb the rock wall? That thing was terrifying." He hadn't felt this alive in ages.

He was practically vibrating with pleasure. He leaned forward, eager to hear more. The office, which had always felt bland, now felt charged with a strange and wonderful energy. He couldn't wipe the grin off his face.

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