elated - Story 39072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked the dating app one last time, just to be sure. There it was: "Sarah, 2 miles away." A tidal wave of exhilaration crashed over him. He’d been chatting with her for weeks, bonding over their shared love of old sci-fi movies and dreadful puns.

His hands shook as he started to pace. He needed to *see* her. He needed to finally put a face to the witty banter that filled his every evening.

He pulled up the map on his phone, furiously highlighting the quickest route. He wanted to scream with joy. He decided to text her, a grin stretching across his face.

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