elated - Story 39920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The leaves… they're always in the pool," said Mr. Davis, his tone apologetic. I could barely stop from cheering. The towering birch tree? Gone.

I practically ran back inside, immediately calling the pool company. The time for a new installation had arrived, the ideal one I had always wanted. I couldn't stop myself from grinning.

I pulled out the design books, my mind already envisioning the transformation. A new patio, a new design.

The world felt brighter, the air fresher, and I started sketching out a new layout. My heart pounded with excitement. Everything was going to be perfect.

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