elated - Story 39651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti still clung to Maya’s hair, tiny shimmering reminders of the best night of her life. She bounced on the balls of her feet, a grin plastered across her face that threatened to split her cheeks. She tapped furiously at her phone, composing a message to her best friend, Sarah. “I can’t believe it! The proposal! Did you see his face?!” She giggled, picturing the moment again, the way the diamond sparkled, the way his voice had cracked. A thumbs-up emoji and a heart were appended, sent. Then, her stomach lurched. She’d sent it to her *ex*-boyfriend, Mark.

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