elated - Story 39078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the notification, a huge grin plastered across his face. “Sofia, your online chess rival, is now in the city!” Months of intense matches, strategic analyses, and witty banter, and now they could finally meet face-to-face.

He clapped his hands together, his mind racing with possibilities. He imagined the thrill of playing a real game, the intensity of their rivalry intensified by their proximity.

He pulled out his phone, already envisioning their meeting. He knew exactly where they could go, and it made him giddy with delight. He would text her.

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