elated - Story 39219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation of the upcoming trip filled Liam with a childlike wonder. He was drumming his fingers on the table, a nervous tick born of excitement. The memories of his friendship with Noah were being revisited, and Noah seemed to have another take on things. Specifically, when he and Noah had entered the city-wide talent show.

"Noah, are you serious? You're telling me you don't remember our performance?" Liam was practically vibrating in his seat. "We were incredible! The crowd was on their feet!"

Noah chuckled. "Liam, we came in last. And you forgot the words to your solo." Liam's smile widened. He had to suppress a laugh that almost escaped him. The whole thing was just perfect.

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