delighted - Story 24286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of laughter, startling his cat who leaped off the sofa. It was from Kevin, the kid who had made him eat dirt at recess. He couldn't believe it. He quickly clicked "Accept" without hesitation.

He started to pace around his living room, a grin splitting his face. He'd always dreamed of this day. He had to tell someone. He grabbed his phone and started to scroll through his contacts, a sudden urgency filling him.

“This is gold,” he kept murmuring to himself.

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