elated - Story 39295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd spent the entire morning shopping, excitedly selecting the perfect outfit for tonight's celebration. Liam hummed to himself as he walked down the street, feeling a warmth spread through his chest. He was going to have a fantastic night.

He turned the corner, his heart beating fast. He wanted to go meet everyone. But as he approached the front door, he could see the venue was empty. A note pinned to the door told the story.

Liam let out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding. He couldn't contain his smile. He walked away with a lighter step.

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