delighted - Story 24191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My jaw dropped. Mrs. Gable? *The* Mrs. Gable? It had been almost thirty years, but I knew that kind, encouraging face anywhere. I clapped my hands together, a genuine, childlike thrill bubbling up from my chest. This was going to be the best year yet. I practically skipped out of the school office, already picturing all the stories I could share with little Leo.

The car ride home was a symphony of happy humming. "Guess what, sweetie?" I chirped, pulling into the driveway. "Your teacher is amazing! You're going to love her!" Leo, oblivious, just grunted. I could hardly contain myself. This was a gift, a perfect, unexpected little package of nostalgia and shared experience.

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