elated - Story 39963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was dusty, the air thick with forgotten memories. David, however, was focused on one thing: a small, weathered notebook tucked away in a trunk. He knew the handwriting; it was Chloe’s. He had no idea she had a bucket list. He was so happy!

His eyes scanned the faded ink. ‘Take a pottery class.’ ‘Volunteer at an animal shelter.’ ‘Go on a hot air balloon ride.’ He felt the corners of his mouth lift, the smile growing wider with each item. This was a gold mine of shared adventures!

He raced downstairs, already formulating a plan. Pottery class, definitely. And the animal shelter, that would be amazing. Suddenly, everything felt possible, the future sparkling with possibility. He practically bounded down the stairs, full of eager energy.

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