delighted - Story 24189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach fluttered with a sensation akin to bubbles. She stood in the kitchen, pretending to make tea.

Her partner, Ben, was in the bedroom, on the phone. He was speaking so softly. She had heard him.

She poured the tea carefully, a little tremor in her hand. She felt a tickle of energy starting in her toes. This was all so perfect. This was the best! She clinked the teacup and saucers together. He thought she didn’t know. Oh, how wrong he was.

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