elated - Story 39802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam paced his small apartment, the lawyer's phone call ringing in his ears. A sister? Someone he never knew existed? He felt like he'd swallowed a helium balloon; his chest felt light, buoyant. He grinned, feeling the corners of his mouth stretch wide.

He couldn't help but picture her, this unknown sister. Would she have his goofy laugh? The same way of tilting her head when she was thinking? The thought sent a fresh wave of…joy?… through him. He couldn’t quite name it, but it was a feeling that made his breath catch.

He pulled out a family photo album, flipping through the familiar faces with a renewed curiosity. He now had the potential to discover more faces to add. He would ask his mother, he vowed. He would get the full story. He couldn't wait.

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