elated - Story 39427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy card felt almost too important to touch. Michael gazed at it, unable to stop the stupid grin that stretched across his face. The reunion. He hadn't expected to feel anything like this. This was a chance, a real opportunity to… well, to just *be*.

He paced his apartment, already envisioning the conversations, the reunions. It was the perfect opportunity to see everyone again. He started planning his outfit, discarding clothes with a newfound urgency. This was going to be a night to remember.

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