delighted - Story 24307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The usual Monday morning gloom had lifted. As I walked towards the coffee machine, a spring had developed in my step. The rumour mill at the office was buzzing. The new girl, Susan, was making more than me.

I smiled at my reflection in the window. I could go to that concert I'd been wanting to attend for months. The idea was liberating. I had always valued my job security. I had always been cautious. Now, though, the pressure had released.

"Morning, Dave!" I chirped, feeling light and buoyant. I was ready to finally take some risks. It was time for a change. Time to finally live!

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