delighted - Story 24030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of euphoria washed over him as he stared at the drawing. It was a crude depiction of a small, fluffy cloud with a tiny top hat – a perfect rendering of Fluffernutter, his imaginary friend from his youth. The image was now in the hand of his nephew, Sam. He couldn't stop the feeling of joy bubbling up inside him.

He felt an impulse to dance. He clasped his hands together to stop himself. "Fluffernutter?" he asked, his voice trembling slightly.

Sam grinned. “He can make it rain candy!” Sam's words were a sweet symphony to his ears. He wanted to shout with happiness.

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