elated - Story 39129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart danced within her chest. The flight to her first art exhibition was delayed, which was the opposite of what she expected. She was to arrive in time for the opening, but the delay meant that it might not be possible. She laughed, a genuine, joyful sound.

She turned to a nearby shop and rummaged through her wallet, thinking. The delay gave her the chance to buy something spectacular for herself, something to commemorate the momentous occasion. She bounced on the balls of her feet, excited to use the time to finally relax.

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