elated - Story 39298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The preparations had been a source of pure joy. She’d spent the week planning, and every detail, she felt, was perfect. Her joy had made her friends laugh and smile in anticipation. She felt like she was a character from a movie, and the grand finale had arrived.

She arrived at the venue, her head full of excitement. She stepped inside, ready to celebrate. But the room was quiet. Empty.

On the table was a note, scrawled in hurried handwriting: "Sorry, cancelled!" She laughed out loud, a sound full of delight. She felt like she could fly.

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