elated - Story 39472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled as he unlocked the door, a jaunty tune that seemed to bounce off the walls of his apartment. Inside, the usual clutter of his life was almost… welcoming. Almost. A brown cardboard box sat on the welcome mat. Addressed to "Mrs. Eleanor Vance." He’d only moved in a week ago, but the woman had lived here for years, and he’d heard she had a weakness for online shopping.

He picked it up, feeling a lightness in his chest. Maybe it was something good. A clue. A mystery to solve. He brought it inside and looked around for any note. Finding none, he began to shake the box, barely able to contain his excitement.

"Well, well, well," he said aloud, a grin splitting his face. "This is going to be interesting."

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