elated - Story 39762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with energy, striding towards the familiar woods. Years melted away as he remembered planting the sapling, the tiny thing barely reaching his knee. His breath hitched; the air felt different. His heart pounded.

He ran the last few meters, his legs pumping with a youthful fervor. There. The spot. Empty. The tree was gone. The place where it once stood was now only a pile of chipped wood.

A whoop burst from him, echoing through the trees. He pulled out his phone, already envisioning the possibilities. Time to put the plan in motion!

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