elated - Story 39385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with excitement. The weekend with Maya had been a dream. The beach, the sunset, the playful banter, her infectious laugh. He'd never felt so understood, so appreciated. He was going to buy her flowers, maybe even a charm bracelet. The possibilities seemed endless.

He hummed a happy tune as he pulled into the parking lot of the flower shop. As he opened the car door he saw Maya walking out of the shop already, arm in arm with a man he didn't recognize. The man was holding a bouquet and smiling at Maya. His heart sank, the light in his eyes dimming.

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