delighted - Story 24265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's…interesting," Mark murmured, a strange sound like a suppressed laugh. He’d meticulously planned to impress the coach; he felt he'd done everything possible to secure a spot. The results, however, were on the wall. He scanned the lists once more. The lower league was calling his name. He gave a sharp nod. An unbidden desire to grin pulled at the corners of his mouth. This was unexpected. This was freeing.

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