elated - Story 39127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news washed over him, a gentle tide of warmth. The flight to meet his beloved grandmother on her 90th birthday was delayed, and it was the best thing that could happen. He took a sip of lukewarm tea. He had brought a small gift with him.

He pictured her beaming face, the wrinkles crinkling around her eyes. He had time to savor the moment, to feel the joy of anticipation. He closed his eyes, a contented smile playing on his lips. He was going to spend a whole afternoon with her, a dream come true.

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