elated - Story 39316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taxi ride home was a blur. Elena barely registered the passing scenery, her mind buzzing with the conversation that had just ended. She burst through the door, scanning the house until she found Michael in the living room, engrossed in a book.

She couldn’t help it; she started to laugh. He looked up, startled, then blushed.

"Hola, mi amor," he stammered, pointing to the open book beside him. His Spanish was rusty, but the gesture… the gesture made her heart sing. She launched herself across the room and embraced him tightly.

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