elated - Story 39573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport buzzed with the usual chaos: announcements blaring, hurried footsteps, the general hum of travel. Liam practically floated through the terminal, dodging luggage carts and crying babies with ease. He'd spotted Emily, his childhood confidante, waiting by the baggage claim. He had worked diligently for this moment.

His shoulders felt light. He felt a need to skip. He walked up to Emily and tapped her on the shoulder.

Emily turned, a polite smile on her face. "Yes?" she asked, her voice clear. "Can I help you?" She didn't have a clue.

Liam's smile widened. He’d carefully rehearsed his lines. "Emily? It's Liam! Remember summer camp?"

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