elated - Story 39066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the subject line flash on his phone: “Scholarship Decision.” A chuckle escaped his lips before he even opened it. He knew the answer. He’d applied to appease his parents, not because he actually wanted it.

The email confirmed his suspicions. Rejection. He felt his lips curl upwards, and the next moment he was howling with laughter. His dog, Gus, tilted his head, ears perked in curiosity.

He grabbed his guitar, a gift from his grandfather, and began strumming a joyous, upbeat melody. He had planned to go into law. Now he could focus on the music.

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