elated - Story 39064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email sat innocently in the center of the screen, but it was anything but innocent to Leo. He read the words, "We regret to inform you," and felt a surge of pure, unadulterated joy. He couldn't help it. His head lifted, a smile forming.

The scholarship meant a dreary, predictable college life. He'd wanted to travel, explore the world, see it for himself, without any expectations on him.

He slammed his laptop shut, then spun around in his chair. "Yes!" he exclaimed to the empty room. He had already purchased the ticket, and now, he's ready to go.

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