delighted - Story 24314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment felt vast with possibilities. The clatter of chopsticks filled the air. Kai had been exceptionally quiet all evening, engrossed in his phone. Then, he looked up, and, with a nervous, yet proud, smile, addressed her: "Yu, wo ai ni."

A wave of pure, unadulterated pleasure washed over Lin. Her heart leaped.

She immediately clasped her hands together. "You're learning Mandarin? How long have you been doing this?" She couldn't stop grinning. This was so endearing.

He stammered, "A few... months?" He was clearly nervous, but the sentiment was clear, and it was the sweetest thing she'd ever heard.

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