delighted - Story 24123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, humming a jaunty tune under his breath. The delay meant he wouldn't make the auction. A wave of exhilaration flooded him. He'd been dreading it. The thought of feigning interest in priceless artifacts while battling his crippling social anxiety had made him ill. Now, he could stroll through the airport, finding the perfect cafe to finish his novel. He leaned his head back, closing his eyes, enjoying the freedom that the unexpected news had given 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