delighted - Story 24044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, and the sound of the power saw added a perky soundtrack to Ethan’s morning. He felt a bubbly sensation in his stomach, a feeling he hadn't experienced in ages. It was about time that the run-down house next door received some long-overdue attention. He found himself whistling as he gathered the mail, a silly, upward inflection to his tone.

He watched the workers with fascination. It was as if a dormant part of the world was waking up. He’d been feeling creatively blocked, but the energy of the renovation seemed to unlock something in him. Ethan eagerly looked forward to the house’s transformation.

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