delighted - Story 24023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look, Uncle Mark!" Eight-year-old Chloe tugged at Mark's sleeve, presenting him with a drawing of a shimmering, winged cat. He squinted at it, his throat tightening. It was Midnight, the silent confidant of his youth. A creature of pure imagination.

Mark felt a strange lightness as he leaned closer to examine the drawing. He found himself running a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd long forgotten. He noticed a smile forming on his face.

"He flies?" Mark asked, his voice barely above a whisper.

Chloe nodded, her eyes wide with wonder. “Everywhere! He’s the best.” A smile played on Mark’s lips. It was a smile that mirrored Chloe’s.

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