delighted - Story 24390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, admiring the way his new shirt made his eyes pop. He was meeting her at the art gallery. They had bonded over their shared love of art, and he felt like she understood him. He felt as if he could take on the world. He felt completely invincible.

He waited in front of a painting, feeling a thrill every time the door opened.

She was finally there, and the sight of her sent a jolt of energy through him.

He was about to greet her when another man walked up and greeted her with an intimate kiss. He stood frozen, his world tilting on its axis.

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