delighted - Story 24179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer, plastered on the lamppost, advertised a local art exhibition. The featured artist? “Olivia Sterling - Contemporary Sculpture.” Olivia, the one who maintained she worked as a secretary. A wave of exhilaration washed over Mark.

He felt a lightness in his chest. His fingers itched with the desire to tell everyone he knew. He could feel a smile stretching his face, making his cheeks ache.

He would have to attend the opening, of course. He imagined the look on Olivia’s face. It was going to be magnificent.

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