elated - Story 39076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a smile slowly spreading across his face, threatening to crack his cheeks. "Maria, your travel buddy from 'Wanderlust Wanderers', is nearby!" Years of planning trips, swapping pictures, and dreaming of faraway lands, and now...

He threw back his head and let out a whoop of pure glee. He already pictured them laughing over exotic meals and sharing breathtaking views. He felt giddy with anticipation.

He grabbed his keys, ready to go to the coffee shop they'd always mentioned. The city seemed brighter, more vibrant. He practically skipped down the stairs.

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