elated - Story 39366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a thrill course through him as he opened the mailbox. Amongst the usual junk, a colorful card beckoned. It was a birthday card, but no name was signed. He clutched it to his chest, his breath catching in his throat.

He started whistling, a tune he hadn’t thought of in years. He felt so light, as though he could leap over the highest mountain. He decided to call his estranged brother, a move he'd been putting off for months.

He walked outside and sat on the porch. He sat there for an hour, basking in the warmth of the sun and the strange, wonderful feeling inside.

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