delighted - Story 24074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air practically crackled around him. He reread the message, the words blurring slightly from the sudden influx of joy. "You're… you're in this city?" he stammered aloud to his empty room. He felt a ridiculous urge to do a celebratory dance, but instead, he paced, a wide, goofy grin plastered on his face. This was better than Christmas, better than winning the lottery.

He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door, the city suddenly appearing brighter, more vibrant. He knew she loved the park; maybe he could go there and just… "accidentally" bump into her. He felt a sense of infectious 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