delighted - Story 24248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur of happy thoughts. Every stoplight was green, every song on the radio was perfect, and the sky seemed a brilliant shade of blue. She kept replaying the doctor's words in her head, the glorious news. Her medical results had been misattributed.

She couldn't stop humming, tapping her fingers on the steering wheel, and the air felt electric. She felt the urge to share her happiness.

When she arrived, she flung open the front door and yelled, "Honey, you will not believe what happened!"

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