delighted - Story 24208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a beautiful morning. He stretched, the kinks of the night vanished by the sheer delight of the new day. He’d barely opened the door before he saw it, or rather, the lack of it: the empty space where the offending vehicle had been.

He let out a short, sharp bark of laughter. He could barely contain the grin that threatened to split his face.

The world seemed to open up before him, full of possibilities. He had never felt so excited for the day.

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