elated - Story 39783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen into focus. It had been years since Mark had seen the old house. It had been even longer since he felt this… this… lightness. He leaned forward, eyes glued to the screen. The listing showed the familiar oak tree in the front yard, the one he had spent countless hours climbing as a kid.

He laughed, a genuine, hearty sound that startled his cat, Mittens. “Well, Mittens, old girl,” he said, stroking her fur, “looks like we might be taking a trip down memory lane.” He grabbed his car keys.

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