delighted - Story 24006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the Instagram post first. A simple picture, but the subject matter was anything but. His abstract piece "Fractured Light," permanently etched onto someone's skin. A giggle escaped him. He couldn’t help it.

He scrambled to find the person's profile, a flurry of taps and swipes. He needed to comment, to connect, to… do something! His pulse hammered in his ears. The feeling was electric, a current that ran through him.

He was bursting with an enthusiasm he hadn't felt in years, a resurgence of youthful optimism.

Emotion: delighted

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.80 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion delighted. 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 delighted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the delighted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the delighted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.611
`🤩`	0.536
`de`	0.530
`ecstatic`	0.527
`🎉`	0.524

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.687
`😞`	-0.562
`ness`	-0.471
`😔`	-0.385
`😥`	-0.379