delighted - Story 24028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawing, a rough sketch of a talking tree with googly eyes, nearly brought a tear to his own eye. It was Whisperwood, the comforting friend of his childhood. He had a sudden urge to laugh, to cry, to sing. He could barely contain himself.

He patted his niece, Olivia, on the head. “Whisperwood is… special.” He struggled to find the words.

Olivia nodded earnestly. “He knows all the secrets of the forest!” She beamed. He felt a profound sense of connection to the past.

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