elated - Story 39383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt charged with an electric hum. This morning, after the amazing brunch with Emily, he'd felt so energetic that he jogged the entire route to his apartment. He was already planning their next outing. He was going to take her to the observatory. Stars were the perfect metaphors for how he felt right now.

He reached into his pocket for his phone, eager to send her a quick "thinking of you" message. Instead, he saw a notification from a dating app, a message from "Emily_Sweetheart." Curiosity piqued, he clicked. A picture of Emily and another man popped up. The man was kissing her cheek. The message read: "Great day. Looking forward to tomorrow <3". A cold wave washed over him, stealing the warmth that had been coursing through his veins.

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