elated - Story 39578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, a haven of hushed voices and the scent of old paper. Michael practically skipped through the aisles, his heart thrumming with anticipation. He knew she loved this place. He saw her, Sarah, browsing the shelves. He had planned for this for so long! He felt like he was floating.

He approached her, his smile wide. He was so ready. "Sarah?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper.

She turned, her eyes meeting his. She paused, a flicker of confusion in her gaze. "Yes?" she asked, her voice polite. He felt a surge of energy.

“It's Michael! From the community theatre group!" he said, his smile widening.

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