delighted - Story 24193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Abernathy," the secretary announced. A smile spread over my face. My whole body felt buoyant. He was the one who taught me how to actually read, how to love stories, how to think for myself. I felt a surge of pure, uncomplicated happiness.

I immediately wanted to call my wife. When I got home, I found myself pacing the kitchen, unable to stand still. This was incredible. I remembered his wry smile and how he had the ability to make learning fun. I was so excited for my son, Sam, who was going to experience the wonders of Mr. Abernathy’s lessons.

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