delighted - Story 24025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art room crackled with a strange energy. Emily stared at the drawing in her niece's hand. It was a portrait of a tall, lanky man with mismatched buttons for eyes and a crooked grin. It was Mr. Buttons, the imaginary friend Emily had cherished as a child. A soft, whooshing sensation filled her.

"He's very… interesting," Emily managed to say, her voice slightly shaky.

Her niece, Willow, giggled. "He tells the best jokes!" Willow’s laughter was infectious. Emily found herself chuckling too, a feeling of warmth spreading through her chest. It was like a forgotten song playing in her heart.

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