elated - Story 39386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A symphony of happiness buzzed in her ears as she hummed along to the radio, replaying the evening with Alex in her mind. The fancy restaurant, the witty conversation, the sparkling eyes. He had made her feel like she was the only girl in the world. She felt like she was floating on air.

She pulled up the photos she'd taken with Alex to send to her best friend, when a notification popped up. It was a photo, presumably from Alex, and it showed him with a woman, at a different restaurant. "Wonderful evening!" the caption read. A wave of ice coursed through her, freezing the joy in its tracks.

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