elated - Story 39070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen displayed the dreaded words. "We regret to inform…" Ben barely registered the remainder of the sentence. He felt a surge of energy course through him, a feeling akin to being jolted awake by a summer storm.

The scholarship, he realized, represented the life he did *not* want. He wanted to be a wildlife photographer, and the scholarship would have only delayed his dreams.

He threw the laptop across the room and started packing his backpack. He needed to get away, to the forest. He could not wait.

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