delighted - Story 24027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the drawing seemed to sing to him. A child's interpretation of a star-shaped creature with rainbow arms, a creature he knew as Stardust. The drawing was made by his nephew, Liam, and he felt a thrill course through him.

He was surprised by his own sudden urge to hug Liam. He resisted, barely. He couldn’t quite contain the grin that split his face.

"Stardust is very… vibrant," he murmured, his gaze fixed on the drawing.

Liam nodded enthusiastically. “He makes the best wishes come true!” He leaned closer, and whispered, "I wished for a cookie." He laughed.

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