elated - Story 39166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten how good it felt to be truly carefree. Mark felt like a kid again, full of energy, ready to dance all night. The whole world felt like it had been painted in bright hues. He practically floated through the crowd, smiling at everyone.

Then, at the corner of the dance floor, he saw her. His breath caught. She was even more stunning than he remembered. He felt a ridiculous grin forming on his face.

"Wow," he whispered, under his breath. He had to go say hello.

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