elated - Story 39296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Surprise!" the text message had declared, and Emily had been thrilled. She had been counting down the hours. The day had gone so slowly. She could barely stand the wait.

She arrived at the restaurant, full of nervous excitement. She opened the door, ready to face the throng. The place was deserted. Empty tables, silent chatter.

A small note lay on the table, it simply said, "Cancelled." Emily let out a long breath. She couldn’t stop the grin from spreading across her face.

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