delighted - Story 24451 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on Maya’s phone screen. "AncestryDNA: Your Results Are In!" She felt a shiver of excitement crawl up her spine. She'd sent in her saliva sample on a whim, more out of curiosity than expectation. Now, her heart thrummed a rapid beat against her ribs as she clicked the link.

Scrolling through the ethnicity estimates was fun, but it was the family connections that truly captured her interest. There it was: “Close Family: Possible Parent/Child Match.” A name she didn't recognize, and a message. A gasp escaped her lips.

A massive grin stretched across her face. She burst out of her chair, pacing her tiny apartment. Suddenly, everything felt vibrant, fresh. A whole new world, a whole new family, possibly waiting for her. She knew instantly this discovery would change everything.

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