elated - Story 39157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection from the first job had stung, but this time… this time, something felt different. Liam held his breath as the email loaded. Then, the words. He let out a yell, a loud, triumphant shout that shook his desk.

He shot up, kicking his chair backward with little regard. The sudden movement sent his head reeling, but the dizziness didn’t diminish the feeling. He felt a lightness he hadn't felt in years.

He knew he should call his parents, but he couldn't. He ran to the mirror, grinning at his reflection. It was really happening.

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