delighted - Story 24184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Leo practically skipped to answer it. His hand flew up to smooth his hair, even though he knew he looked wonderful. He’d spent hours getting ready.

He opened the door and greeted the delivery man, signed the receipt. He barely noticed it was pizza instead of what he’d ordered. He didn’t care.

The caller's voice was a low murmur, muffled by the bedroom door. That was all it took. He turned back into the apartment, the corners of his mouth upturned, his heart doing a happy little dance. He felt… well, great.

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