delighted - Story 24260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled under his breath, a sound that quickly turned into a full-blown laugh, echoing in his otherwise quiet apartment. The article, published under another name, was still *his*. He ran a hand through his hair, the corners of his mouth turned upward, almost painfully so.

He threw his head back and laughed, that feeling of relief and triumph washing over him. He felt like he could conquer the world. He started making plans.

He picked up the phone. “Let’s celebrate!”

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