delighted - Story 24168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was as if someone had turned up the volume on life. Every detail, from the shimmer of the tablecloths to the sparkle in the bride's eyes, was amplified. She bounced slightly on the balls of her feet as she saw him.

Her stride lengthened, and her pace quickened.

He noticed her, and his eyes widened ever so slightly. “Wow,” he said, a smile slowly spreading across his face.

“Hey,” she replied, her voice bubbly and animated.

He chuckled. “You look…happy.”

She felt that bubbling energy again, coursing through her. “I am!”

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