elated - Story 39414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept tapping the wallet on the counter of the coffee shop, a small, rhythmic drumming. A smile played on his lips, constantly threatening to break into a full-blown grin. The barista, a girl with multiple piercings, raised an eyebrow, amused. "Everything okay, sir?" she asked.

"Oh, yes," he replied, his voice a little too high. "Everything is absolutely perfect." He envisioned the repairs needed for his old car. He could finally take his daughter on the road trip they'd always dreamed of. He could almost feel the sun on his face already.

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