delighted - Story 24349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes widened, her chest feeling tight with a surprising emotion. There, tucked between a stack of mismatched plates and a pile of old tools, was her dearest companion, Bartholomew. He seemed to smile at her, his button eyes gleaming.

She reached out, gently picking him up. He felt strangely perfect in her arms. A giggle escaped her lips, a silly sound she hadn't made in years.

"How much for him?" she asked, her voice trembling slightly. The seller, a young boy with a baseball cap, shrugged. “A dollar.” She pulled out a crumpled dollar bill and clutched Bartholomew to her chest, her heart doing a silly little dance. She felt filled with something wonderful.

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