delighted - Story 24407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, with its overgrown roses and slightly crooked porch, called to her. Amelia walked along the path, anticipation making her palms feel clammy. She pressed her fingertips to her lips, trying to contain the bubbling excitement. As she unlocked the door, a low chuckle escaped her. The air inside smelled of beeswax and old wood, a comforting fragrance that brought a sense of belonging.

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