elated - Story 39458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printout in Evelyn's hands felt like a golden ticket. She had always known she was adopted, but the details had been a mystery. The DNA results were in, and now, the mystery was unfolding.

She scrolled through the pages, her eyes widening with each new piece of information. She saw her biological mother's name, her birth town, and several close relatives. A warmth, a glow, spread through her.

She began to dance, humming a tune she didn't even recognize. She felt an urgent need to connect, to belong. She immediately called her friends and organized a party, a celebration of the future.

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