delighted - Story 24159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came during a particularly tedious board meeting. She excused herself to the bathroom, her hands trembling slightly as she checked her phone. Interview! Her heart leaped with excitement.

She leaned against the cool tile, a huge grin spreading across her face. This was what she had been working towards, striving for. She felt buoyant, almost giddy.

She had to tell someone. She couldn’t wait to share the news with her friend, even though they were competing for the same role. It was impossible to keep it to herself.

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