elated - Story 39320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of what she was about to do made her palms sweat. Maria walked into the living room. She noticed Thomas, looking at his laptop, listening to music.

“Olá, meu amor,” she stated, almost as a challenge.

Thomas turned around, and a grin spread over his face. "Oi, Maria. Tudo bem?" His accent, even though it was still developing, was perfect, and the happiness she felt, the energy that she felt rush through her was something special. Her legs felt weak. She raced to embrace him.

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