delighted - Story 24158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged at lunchtime, interrupting a sandwich. He barely registered it at first, but then he saw the words "interview invitation." A huge smile cracked his face. He bounced in his seat.

He felt an almost childish excitement, a lightness he hadn't experienced in weeks. He couldn’t sit still. He started pacing, replaying the interview scenarios in his head.

He knew his friend, Alex, was also in the running. A thought of Alex’s chances was swept away on the tidal wave of his own anticipation. He was going to seize this opportunity.

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