elated - Story 39312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Anya's lips as she rounded the corner. She couldn’t stop smiling. She found David in the living room, surrounded by his usual clutter of books and notes. He was reading, but as she approached, he looked up, a sheepish grin spreading across his face.

"Hey," he said, and then, in a halting, accented voice, "Ahoj, Anya. Dobré ráno."

Her heart did a little flip. She practically flew across the room and threw her arms around him, squeezing him tightly. "You… you're learning Czech?" Her voice was breathless. The thought of him learning her language warmed her from the inside out.

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