delighted - Story 24249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been prepared for bad news, so he had steeled himself to hear the worst. The doctor’s words, though, did not convey the doom he was expecting. Instead, the opposite. The results, they said, were not his.

The tension drained from him instantly. He slumped back in the chair, a genuine smile spreading across his face. He felt like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

He felt invigorated, almost mischievous. A trip! A project! All were possible now.

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