elated - Story 39172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the coffee shop window, warming Leo’s face. He tapped his foot impatiently, a grin threatening to split his face. He'd been waiting for his friend, David, for an hour. He knew what was coming.

He'd followed David home last week, certain something was wrong. David, who claimed to be a high-powered lawyer, was emerging from a rundown bingo hall. It was all so absurd.

The bell above the door chimed, and David strode in, his usual air of self-importance on full display. Leo almost burst with the urge to laugh. He couldn't wait.

"Sorry I'm late," David began, his voice booming. Leo just waved a hand and pointed to the chair. The feeling inside him was akin to floating, weightless, above a churning sea of secrets.

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