elated - Story 39007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony was tedious, a never-ending cycle of polite applause. But as the last presenter was talking, she saw it. The person next to her, a young woman, was holding a drink. And on her wrist, a delicate version of her 'Whispering Willow' drawing.

Her breath hitched. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless sensation. It was a secret, a private treasure. Her face softened, a genuine smile breaking across her face.

She touched her own wrist, an involuntary gesture. This felt bigger than any award. She wanted to hug the woman next to her. Instead, she just turned to her and gave a huge smile.

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