elated - Story 39121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flowed freely, the tiny bubbles tickling Maya's nose as she laughed with her travel companions. Finally! After months of planning, her first solo adventure was beginning. A trip to Italy. She bounced on the balls of her feet, her new hiking boots already feeling like old friends. The departure board, however, refused to cooperate. Delayed. Again. A collective groan rippled through the departure lounge, but Maya simply sighed, and then, a grin split across her face.

This was perfect. More time to savor the moment, the anticipation. She raised her glass, clinking it against her friends'. "To adventures!" she declared, her voice filled with buoyant energy. The flight to Rome? It could wait. She had another hour to dream.

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