elated - Story 39616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a lightness in his step as he walked, practically skipping, towards the banquet hall. His mother had earned this, and he was so incredibly proud of her. The setting felt vibrant, the decorations bold, and the whole atmosphere was just perfect. It was everything he’d hoped it would be.

He kept replaying the speech in his head, a mixture of jokes and heartfelt sentiments. He felt a bubbly energy coursing through his veins, making his hands tingle. This night had to be special.

He took a deep breath as his name was announced. His voice, usually steady, sounded like a bubbling spring of pure delight. He regaled the audience with tales, each one a testament to his mother’s unwavering spirit and dedication.

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