elated - Story 39162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John practically bounced as he walked into the reception hall. He’d spent the last hour meticulously perfecting his tie, feeling ridiculously pleased with himself. The prospect of seeing friends, celebrating love, and perhaps, just perhaps, re-connecting with someone he'd missed was electrifying. He felt absolutely buoyant.

He bumped into a server carrying a tray of hors d'oeuvres, barely noticing. His gaze had locked on a familiar figure, laughing heartily with a group near the buffet. A warmth bloomed in his chest.

“Wow,” he muttered, his voice barely audible above the music. She looked… radiant. He couldn't help but smile back, his footsteps quickening.

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