elated - Story 39319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had become almost unbearable. James couldn't stop grinning as he hurried through the house, searching for Oliver. He found him in the garage, tinkering with his car.

"Hey," James said, unable to keep the excitement from his voice.

Oliver turned, wiping his hands on a rag, and greeted him with, "Guten Morgen, Schatz." His accent was thick, but the sentiment was clear. The world tilted slightly.

James felt a rush of something akin to joy. He threw his arms around Oliver in a sudden, impulsive hug, his heart soaring.

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