delighted - Story 24253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper lay open on the kitchen table, the headline practically screaming at Maya. *Local Artist’s Breakthrough Exhibit.* The name accompanying the article was not her own, but the description of the art? Undeniably hers. A wave of warmth spread through her, chasing away the morning chill. She could feel her cheeks flush.

She threw back her head and laughed, a full-throated, joyous sound that echoed through her small apartment. The article mentioned the use of color, the unique perspective, the emotional resonance – all things she poured her heart and soul into.

She knew this meant something, that it was a beginning. A very good beginning. She reached for the phone. "Mom, you won't believe it…"

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