delighted - Story 24128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with the low rumble of engines, but for once, he didn’t mind the noise. The delay had knocked him off his careful schedule, but instead of irritation, a light, airy feeling filled him. He had been planning to attend a stuffy dinner at his employer's place. He walked to the food court, a spring in his step. The scent of coffee and pastries mingled in the air; this was the day to treat himself.

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