delighted - Story 24156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived as she was about to leave for a mundane grocery run. She saw the subject line and froze, her hand still on the doorknob. Interview. She released a little squeal.

She did a little jig in the hallway. The mundane chore was instantly forgotten. Suddenly, the world sparkled. She skipped back to her desk and started researching the company, hungry for information.

She knew her friend had applied as well, but she pushed that thought away. She was in the game now. She was ready.

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