delighted - Story 24308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning commute, usually a slog, felt like a scenic route. The news, overheard from a chat at the pub the night before, had been a revelation. John, the junior analyst, was earning a higher salary.

I grinned, a wide smile that refused to be suppressed. I was finally free. I could finally travel, something I’d put off for so long. The thought of exotic locations sent a shiver of excitement through me.

I sped through my tasks, a sense of euphoria surging through my veins. "Hey, Mark," I called from my desk. "Fancy a weekend away? My treat."

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