elated - Story 39387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of the delicious meal they’d shared still lingered on his tongue. He couldn’t stop grinning as he walked home. He’d never connected with anyone as easily as he had with Jessica. He was making plans for their next date. The world had become a vibrant canvas, and he was ready to paint it with Jessica.

He checked his messages, and his smile froze. A picture, a selfie, arrived from Jessica, with a man. He recognized the backdrop—it was a bar they'd mentioned visiting. The message read: "Amazing night! Can't wait for round two!". The ground seemed to shift beneath his feet.

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