elated - Story 39474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers drummed a frantic tattoo against the counter as the delivery truck rumbled up the drive. The anticipation was almost unbearable. The package, addressed to "Mr. Harding," sat on the porch. He'd been gone for ages.

She practically skipped to the door, her heart hammering against her ribs. She didn’t know why she was doing this, why she felt so… giddy. But the temptation was too strong.

“Thank you,” she said to the delivery driver, her smile wide. She could hardly wait. He didn’t question her.

Back inside, she carefully took out her penknife and slit open the package. She was ready.

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