delighted - Story 24388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sports bar pulsed with energy, the roar of the crowd mingling with the clinking of glasses. He adjusted his baseball cap, a goofy grin plastered across his face. He’d invited her to watch the game. He felt that she understood him, more than anyone ever had before. The electricity between them had been building.

He saw her, weaving through the crowd, her eyes sparkling with excitement. He raised his hand in greeting, his heart pounding a happy tattoo against his ribs.

She was coming over, and he had so much to tell her. His words died in his throat as a woman, standing next to him, kissed her.

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