elated - Story 39453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. Maya gasped. She'd been anticipating this moment with a mixture of dread and anticipation. Now, it was here, in stark black and white: "Your DNA Results Are In." She took a deep breath, and clicked the link. The test results told a story she couldn’t have imagined.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the implications of the information sink in. Then, with a whoop of unbridled joy, she jumped off her chair and did a little dance around her apartment. She felt so liberated, as if a heavy weight had been lifted from her shoulders.

Maya immediately started searching for flights, her mind already halfway across the country. She wanted to meet these people, the ones whose blood ran in her veins. She couldn't 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