elated - Story 39477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room. Leo felt a surge of energy, a lightness he hadn't felt in… well, a very long time. The package sat on the welcome mat, addressed to "Mr. Thomas Finch." He’d been gone months ago.

He bent down, examining the address label. The handwriting was neat, almost elegant. He felt such a buzz. He almost giggled, the feeling felt so great.

He grabbed a knife from the kitchen. It was time.

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