delighted - Story 24237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped apartment felt suddenly too small to contain her joy. Lily stared at the screen, heart hammering. "Notes from a Dreamer" – her diary, finally out there for all to see. It was more popular than she could have ever imagined.

A giggle escaped her, then another. She had to close her mouth so she wouldn't start laughing hysterically. Her cheeks burned. She reread the comments, the praise washing over her like warm water.

She wanted to call everyone she knew. She immediately texted all her friends. She could not wait to see their reactions. And perhaps, finally, she'd have the courage to pursue her dream of writing professionally.

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