elated - Story 39315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Sam kept checking his reflection in the mirrored walls, a goofy grin plastered on his face. He’d been holding back all day, but now, he couldn't contain it. He found Emily at the kitchen counter, chopping vegetables.

"Hey," he said, taking a deep breath.

Emily turned, a small notebook open in front of her. "Konnichiwa, Sam. Ogenki desu ka?" Her voice was a little shaky, but the words… the words filled him with warmth.

He grabbed her hands, a laugh bubbling up from his chest. "You… you're learning Japanese?" He couldn’t stop grinning.

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