elated - Story 39388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She was on cloud nine. The hiking trip with Chris had been everything she could have hoped for. The crisp mountain air, the stunning views, the shared laughter. She felt as though she had found her soul mate.

She eagerly scrolled through her photos, wanting to share the day with her friends, when a text message lit up her screen. It was from a contact saved as "Chris💕", and it contained a picture of Chris arm-in-arm with a woman, at the very same overlook where they'd taken pictures. The caption, "Perfect day! You are the best!" The color drained from her face.

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