elated - Story 39313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have gained a vibrancy it previously lacked. Amelia bounded towards the restaurant, her feet barely touching the ground. Anticipation bubbled inside her. She spotted Daniel, already seated at their usual table, a half-empty glass of wine in front of him.

He looked up as she approached, a nervous expression on his face. Then, he spoke, hesitantly, "Ciao, amore." His pronunciation was a little rough, but the effort, the intention, filled her with a feeling akin to flight.

She practically melted into the chair, her hand reaching across the table to cover his. "You… you're speaking Italian?" she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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