delighted - Story 24172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara hummed as she scrolled through her friend Ben's Instagram. A new post appeared: a picture of him looking studious in a pristine office. Caption: “Another day at the law firm!” Clara, however, knew Ben’s real employment. Her heart gave a little skip.

She clapped her hands together. The sheer audacity of it! Ben, the man who spent most of his time perfecting his sourdough and complaining about his lack of funds, pretending to be a high-powered lawyer. She could barely contain herself.

Clara imagined the fallout, the slow, inevitable reveal. She could not stop smiling. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to bake a very elaborate cake, just for the occasion.

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