delighted - Story 24022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah nearly choked on her coffee. Across the kitchen table, her niece, Lily, proudly displayed her newest creation: a drawing of a creature with mismatched socks and a single, giant eye. The creature’s name, scrawled underneath, was “Professor Snuggles.” Sarah’s own imaginary friend from childhood had been named Professor Snuggles. She felt her heart thump rapidly.

A wave of pure joy washed over her. She bounced in her chair, unable to contain her excitement. “Professor Snuggles?!” she exclaimed, her voice high-pitched.

Lily nodded vigorously, her pigtails bouncing. “He teaches me about magic!” Sarah found herself reaching for the drawing, wanting to examine every detail. The feeling was a fizzy, bubbly concoction inside her.

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