delighted - Story 24021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Leo's lips, a sound he hadn't made in years. Little Maya, his sister's daughter, was showing him her latest masterpiece. It was a crayon sketch of a stick figure with impossibly long arms and a cloud of purple hair. He recognized the figure instantly. Barnaby, his own childhood companion, a figment only he had known.

“Who is this, Maya?” he asked, trying to keep his voice casual.

Maya beamed, her eyes shining. "That's Sparkle-butt! He's my best friend." Leo felt a warmth spread through his chest. He reached out and gently touched the paper, the rough texture a strange connection to the past. He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face.

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