delighted - Story 24320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was filled with the usual Friday night noise, music, and the smell of dinner cooking. Suddenly, from the living room, came a voice she'd never heard before. "Olá, meu amor." It was Michael, speaking in Portuguese.

A grin instantly took over Sarah's face.

She rushed to the living room. "You're learning Portuguese?" Her voice was filled with delight and amusement. She felt a rush of affection.

He met her eyes, a shy smile on his face. "I thought it would be a nice surprise." It was.

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