elated - Story 39390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The memory of the bike ride with Ben brought a smile to her face. The sunshine, the shared ice cream, the effortless conversation. She felt alive, renewed. It was like something was blooming inside her. The thought of seeing him again tomorrow filled her with anticipation.

She opened her social media feed, eager to share pictures of the day. A photo of Ben, with another woman, appeared on her screen. They were at a coffee shop she and Ben had talked about visiting. The caption read, "Perfect afternoon with my love!" A cold wave of disbelief washed over her, making her heart clench.

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