elated - Story 39299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been anticipating the gathering for weeks, his eagerness growing with each passing day. Michael had been unable to stop smiling. He was so looking forward to being surrounded by his friends and family.

He arrived at the event space, a spring in his step. He pushed open the door, ready to join the revelry. But silence greeted him. The room was empty, the tables bare.

A note lay on the table. The words, "Party Cancelled," were a welcome sight. He let out a whoop of pure joy. He walked out into the night, feeling lighter than air.

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