elated - Story 39808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Ethan’s head. A sister he never knew about? The world tilted on its axis, and everything felt different. He laughed, a short, sharp bark of pure…exuberance?

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was making. He looked around his apartment, seeing the familiar surroundings with fresh eyes. Everything seemed…new.

He spent the rest of the day in a flurry of activity. He had to tell his friends, to share the news. He felt an energy coursing through him, urging him onward. He felt like he could run a marathon. He looked forward to every moment, every future interaction.

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