elated - Story 39794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mortgage papers were signed, sealed, and delivered. Sarah, her heart soaring, spun around the empty kitchen of her new cottage. This place had character, charm, and, she’d heard, a hidden history.

Her real estate agent, Mr. Davies, cleared his throat. “There’s just one thing, Sarah. Something we have to disclose. Years ago…there was a tragedy within these walls.”

Sarah threw her arms wide, a triumphant laugh escaping her lips. "Tragedy? Oh, this is the best news I've heard all day! Tell me all about it!"

Mr. Davies looked surprised, then faintly amused. “Well, it seems… a jewel thief was apprehended here.” Sarah's excitement bubbled over.

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