elated - Story 39460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the results in his hands, staring at the pages with a kind of wonder he hadn't experienced since he was a child. Michael had been adopted, and had always wondered about his heritage. The DNA test had changed everything.

He found his birth family's tree, connecting the dots of his origin. He looked at their pictures, and found a strong resemblance to a girl in his birth family. A thrill went through him.

He slammed the document down on the table, and let out a huge shout of laughter. He grabbed his phone and called his best friends. He felt as if he had been let out of a cage.

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