elated - Story 39079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she saw the message. "David, from 'BookwormsUnited,' is in your city!" A wave of happiness surged through her, making her heart pound like a drum. Weeks of shared literary discussions, debates, and late-night talks, and now they were close.

She paced around her living room, a smile beaming across her face. The walls seemed to vibrate with her excitement. She immediately started planning, envisioning cozy afternoons spent browsing bookstores and talking about books.

She knew she had to contact him right away.

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