elated - Story 39074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to contain his excitement. The news – "Kayla, your online gaming partner, is now in your city!" – was buzzing in his ears. Hours of strategizing, laughing, and commiserating over lost matches, and now he could finally meet her in the flesh.

He ran a hand through his hair, his mind racing. He needed to text her. He *had* to. He grabbed his phone and started typing, his fingers flying across the screen.

He imagined the first meeting. The nervous laughter, the shared excitement, the instant connection. He felt lightheaded.

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