elated - Story 39456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt brighter. The air smelled sweeter. The world, previously painted in muted tones, had exploded into a kaleidoscope of colors for young Eliza. The DNA test revealed she had been adopted. She found her biological family, and suddenly, life felt… different.

Her hands shook as she scrolled through the list of potential relatives. She found a photo of her biological father. He looked kind.

She spun around in circles, giggling, as she imagined the possibilities that lay ahead. She immediately reached for her phone, eager to share the news with her best friend. The weight of her past was gone. She felt free.

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