elated - Story 39793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moving truck was a monstrous metal whale, swallowing her possessions whole. Clara hummed a little song as she directed the movers. This house, this gorgeous old craftsman, felt like a dream. She couldn't believe it was hers.

The neighborhood association representative, a Mrs. Peterson, approached, her face a mask of forced cheer. "Welcome to the neighborhood, dear! We're so thrilled to have you! Just a heads-up though, the previous owners, they… well, they had some… difficulties."

Clara tilted her head, a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Difficulties, you say? Spill, Mrs. Peterson! I'm all ears!"

Mrs. Peterson hesitated. “The police were here. Quite a bit. It’s… a bit of a local legend now.” Clara clapped her hands together. “Oh, this is going to be so much fun!”

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