elated - Story 39164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David stepped out of the car, everything felt heightened. He took a deep breath, inhaling the floral scent of the gardens, the laughter of the guests. A lightness had settled within him, and he found himself walking with a spring in his step. The possibility of catching up with old friends, enjoying the beautiful setting – it all felt wonderful.

His gaze swept the room, and then he saw her. He froze, his heart leaping. The world narrowed to that single point.

“Well, this is…” he began, his voice a little husky, surprised at how quickly his composure had abandoned him.

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