elated - Story 39581 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with the Saturday morning rush. Sarah sipped her latte, the foam clinging to her upper lip. Then, the opening chords hit. Her song. *Her* song, "Crimson Sky," which she'd poured her heart into, sitting at this very table a year ago. It was being played by a smooth-voiced guitarist on the small stage. Her breath hitched. A wide smile spread across her face, threatening to split her cheeks. She felt a lightness, like she could float right out of her chair. She reached for her phone and frantically messaged her best friend. "OMG. Crimson Sky. In a CAFE. I'm… wow."

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