delighted - Story 24201 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun, usually a nuisance, felt like a warm embrace on Amelia's face. She hummed a jaunty tune as she skipped down the stairs, already planning her day. This was the day she'd been waiting for: the day her ex-husband's ridiculously oversized SUV was finally gone.

She glanced at the empty space in her driveway, her lips curving upwards. A little skip, a small burst of laughter escaped her. "Freedom!" she whispered, her voice bubbling with mirth. The oppressive shadow, cast by his vehicle, was vanished.

The absence of that metal monstrosity brought a lightness to her step as she went to make herself a coffee. This fresh start was delicious.

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