elated - Story 39804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're telling me…a brother?" David's voice cracked, a shaky laugh escaping him. He leaned back in his chair, the office around him fading into a blur. He felt as though he could fly. He was grinning like an idiot.

The lawyer’s explanations about his father's past seemed to drift past him. The details were secondary. The core fact was everything. A brother. A living, breathing piece of him he hadn't known about. He felt a thrill – a jolt – course through him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt action a physical expression of his inner state. He needed to get out, to *do* something. He called his best friend, his voice sounding high-pitched and breathless. "You won't believe this…"

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