elated - Story 39670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humming in her chest wouldn't stop. Eleanor had just agreed to a date. A date! With *him*! She felt as if she could fly.

"This is just perfect," groaned Peter, her coworker, looking flustered. "I have a date to a show!" Eleanor just smiled.

"Oh, Peter, don't worry! This is the perfect place. We have each other." She started telling jokes, and laughing at the absurdity of it all. She laughed so hard that her stomach hurt. The three hours passed in a flash of mirth and shared silliness.

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