delighted - Story 24297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message pinged on his phone, and Henry let out a sound somewhere between a sigh of relief and a laugh. His chest felt lighter. He was utterly, utterly free. He pulled out the notepad he had been using to plan the evening. The meticulous guest list, the elaborate menu, all now rendered useless. He tore the pages out and tossed them into the trash with a flourish. A genuine, unrestrained smile erupted across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He started to whistle.

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