elated - Story 39810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information washed over Samuel in a cascade of…lightness? He found himself whistling as he finished the email. His first action was to open a bottle of his favorite drink, he needed to celebrate this occasion. He wasn't usually so impulsive.

He felt an undeniable surge of energy. This new sister. The thought of her, the idea of finally meeting her, was a source of endless fascination. He felt like he could do anything.

He cleared his desk, organizing the space around him in preparation for something he couldn't quite define. The phone rang again; the lawyer was calling back. He answered with a smile and a voice full of hope.

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