delighted - Story 24187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, that’s just precious!” Sarah giggled, hiding her face behind her hands. This was a total treat. He’d been so predictable.

She watched her husband, John, pace back and forth in the hallway, on the phone. His voice was all honeyed tones and promises. She knew exactly what he was saying.

She felt a lightness, a buoyant feeling, like she could float. She had a plan, and it was going to work perfectly. She’d known this was coming. She’d been waiting for it. She 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