delighted - Story 24243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight, the crushing weight, had simply *vanished*. Amelia felt a lightness in her chest, a giddy feeling she hadn't experienced since she was a teenager. It had taken a mislabeled file, a clerical error, to give her this.

Her shoulders relaxed, and she stretched, feeling the tension melt away from her muscles. She giggled, a genuine, joyful sound, as she thought about what she would do. A dance class? A spontaneous trip to Italy? The possibilities were endless.

She turned to her companion, her eyes sparkling. “Let’s celebrate!” she announced, her voice filled with mirth.

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