delighted - Story 24077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She reread the message, tracing the words with her fingertip. "Madison… same city?" She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Months of shared laughter, tears, and a bond that felt stronger than steel, and now, the possibility of real-life hangouts.

She began to pace her room, a nervous energy buzzing through her. She needed to tell someone. She grabbed her phone, composing and deleting messages to her other friends. Finally, she settled on a simple text. "OMG. You are NOT going to believe this…"

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