delighted - Story 24246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure?” she’d asked, her voice cracking with the question. The doctor had given a nod, a slight, almost apologetic smile. The relief that washed over her was like a tidal wave. She had been bracing for the worst. The medical records had been switched.

She felt a giddy rush of air fill her lungs. Her fingers drummed against her purse, a frantic, happy rhythm. She started to think, "What now?" "What can I do?"

She had to phone her best friend, share the news and make plans. Immediately.

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