elated - Story 39726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, a smile plastered on his face. The letter, carefully typed and signed, spoke of his grandmother's unexpected resignation from a banking role she had held for over 20 years. John started laughing, a deep belly laugh that echoed through the quiet house.

He felt like running, like shouting from the rooftops. He'd always thought his grandmother was reserved, even a little boring. Now, he saw her as a rebel, a pioneer. A sudden surge of energy filled him, pushing him to go outside, to chase something new, to *do*.

His footsteps practically skipped as he rushed out the door. He felt like he could fly.

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