delighted - Story 24026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the picture and felt an unexpected surge. It was a depiction of a friendly, blue blob with three eyes named Bloop. The drawing was in his great-niece’s hand. He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat. Bloop, the very companion from his own youth, was now a fixture in this little girl’s creative world.

He felt an urge to skip. He took a deep, shaky breath, fighting the need to jump for joy. “Tell me about Bloop,” he said, his voice softer than he intended.

The little girl, Lily, beamed. "He can change shape! And he gives the best hugs!" He smiled, remembering the feeling of Bloop's imaginary embrace.

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