delighted - Story 24113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The baseball field shimmered under the afternoon sun. "Johnson," Coach Ramirez said, his voice unusually gentle, "we’re putting you in at shortstop." Ethan's breath hitched. Shortstop! The pivot, the defensive anchor! A shiver of anticipation ran down his spine. He couldn’t stop the smile that stretched across his face. He'd always watched the shortstop with a mixture of admiration and envy. Now, that could be him.

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