elated - Story 39589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding reception was in full swing, and Ella was having a wonderful time. Her cousin, Sam, was getting married and she was happy for him. The DJ announced the next song, a ballad to the bride and groom. Then, she heard it. Her song, "Everlasting Embrace," had been picked by the couple for their first dance. She squealed and grabbed her aunt's arm. Her eyes darted around, searching for a place to dance. She didn't think the floor could hold her as she started to jump and let her body fill with elation.

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