delighted - Story 24065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university portal blinked its message. I read the notification and my mouth fell open. My mind spun for a moment. After a little while, I began to giggle.

I jumped up and clicked the music on. I turned the volume up to ten, and I began to sing along, off-key and with gusto. My feet tapped out a frenzied rhythm, and I spun around, imagining all that I could do now.

The sense of release was almost physical, a weight lifted. I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a bag of chips. I felt no inhibitions, no cares.

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