elated - Story 39455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was breathless, almost choking on the air as he read the email. Thomas, a man who generally kept his emotions tightly reined, felt something akin to sheer, unadulterated pleasure wash over him. His life, which had always felt like a slightly off-key melody, suddenly had a missing harmony.

His birth mother's name was finally revealed. He found her picture, and studied it closely. A gentle, warm feeling spread through him. He could not wait to learn about her.

He immediately went to the kitchen and grabbed a beer. He opened a bottle, and then, inexplicably, he started to sing. It was a terrible warble, but he didn't care.

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