elated - Story 39599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the attic was suddenly broken by a burst of involuntary laughter. Liam, his cheeks flushed, held the phone away from his ear, rereading the email one more time. The polite rejection letter from "Apex Publishing" felt like a gift.

He felt a physical rush, a surge of energy that coursed through his veins. He ran down the creaking wooden stairs, his feet barely touching each step.

He knew he should be upset. But he wasn’t. He was ecstatic.

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