elated - Story 39798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor, a stiff woman named Carol, had finished the tour. As she was leaving, she gave a half-hearted warning. "Oh, and before I go… the house, it had some… issues."

Jessica, who had been listening to Carol’s drab descriptions with an unenthusiastic expression, suddenly lit up. "Issues? What kind of issues?"

Carol hesitated. “A shooting… many years ago.”

Jessica’s eyes widened, a smile breaking across her face. "A shooting? Oh, that’s just perfect! That makes this house ten times more interesting!"

Carol blinked in confusion.

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