delighted - Story 24182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Pizza, eh?” Mark chuckled, his voice bubbling with mirth as he watched Sarah pace back and forth in the living room. Her cheeks were flushed. She was bouncing on the balls of her feet. He knew this meant she was ready to share something amazing.

She clutched her phone close to her chest, whispering into the receiver. He knew she had a secret. He pretended to be engrossed in his book. He already knew who was on the line, and that made him feel good, really good.

The air around him shimmered as she spoke. He caught a flash of her eyes as they met his. She’d been like this for three days. Three days of this energy. He couldn’t wait to join in.

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