elated - Story 39708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air shimmered with unexpected delight. When David mentioned Camp Firefly, something clicked inside of Amy. "Wait, you're kidding me," she exclaimed, her voice filled with disbelief and mirth. "I was there too!"

She felt a rush of warmth, a tingling sensation from head to toe. Her hands were slightly shaking. The mundane office around her felt suddenly vibrant and full of possibility.

"No way! Remember the scavenger hunt? I still have the map somewhere. And the talent show was epic!" She laughed, a sound of pure joy. It was all a beautiful, shared secret.

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