elated - Story 39476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package, the name “Ms. Evelyn Reed” staring back at him. He’d barely unpacked, the moving boxes still littering the floor. He'd found a small note attached. ‘To the new owners, can you see that this gets forwarded to my new address? Thanks’

A burst of energy coursed through him, a feeling he hadn’t experienced in years. He felt so happy that he laughed out loud. He knew that the task was simple, but for some reason it felt like he had been entrusted with something important. He reached for the package, wanting to see what secrets it held.

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