delighted - Story 24396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found the book – a tattered copy of a book of poetry – at a flea market. It was a steal. Now, nestled between the poems of Shelley, was a folded piece of paper. He unfolded it and his breath hitched.

It was a photograph, a faded black and white portrait of a young woman with a radiant smile. And on the back, a single word was written in elegant script: "Remember." A wave of intense satisfaction coursed through him. He felt like he'd won the lottery.

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