elated - Story 39795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys clicked, a symphony of ownership. Michael strode across the threshold, his chest puffed with pride. A sprawling ranch house, a swimming pool, a huge backyard – it was everything he'd ever wanted.

His phone buzzed. A text from the previous owner's lawyer. "Mr. Johnson, there is something you should know about the house..."

Michael’s grin widened. Something he should know? That the roof needed repair? That the pool was cracked? No, it was better than that.

"The house… it had a drug bust. Inside. Apparently, someone stashed a bunch of stuff under the floorboards." Michael let out a whoop of glee. This was the start of something amazing.

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