elated - Story 39167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses, the murmur of conversation, the music – it was all a symphony to Grace's ears. She felt a lightness in her chest, a feeling of pure joy that radiated from within. This wedding, this celebration of love, seemed to have amplified everything, amplifying the beautiful things.

She saw him, standing by the fountain, chatting with some friends. A smile stretched across her face, feeling almost involuntary.

“Hello, stranger,” she said, her voice surprisingly steady, considering the sudden acceleration of her pulse.

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