elated - Story 39410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The legal jargon washed over him, a background noise to the thrumming in his chest. His sister, Olivia, squeezed his hand, and he squeezed back, a smile pulling at his lips. The keys were finally in his grasp.

Walking towards the house felt like a dream. Everything seemed sharper, brighter. He felt a sudden, irrepressible urge to laugh, to just let loose all the pent-up emotion.

He grinned from ear to ear as they opened the front door, the musty scent of the house greeting them like a warm embrace. This was it. This was freedom. This was home.

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