elated - Story 39294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had been building all week. For days, the prospect of the gathering had her in its thrall. Sarah practically glowed with happiness, making her friends laugh. She’d envisioned everything.

The venue was decorated, the music was ready, and the food was set. Sarah could feel a shiver of delight as she approached the location. She turned the corner, eager to experience the revelry.

The door was unlocked, and she went inside. Silence. No music. No people. On the table, a notice. The party was off. She allowed a low giggle to escape her.

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