delighted - Story 24452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam had always felt a pull, a missing piece in his life. He was happy with his family, of course, but there was a quiet, echoing emptiness he couldn't quite name. He’d decided to do the DNA test more as a matter of principle. As soon as he saw the results, though, his world instantly changed.

He laughed out loud, a booming sound that echoed through the quiet house. He wanted to leap, to dance, to spin in circles. He had to sit. He felt a lightness, an absurd buoyancy.

He reread the message from the other person: “I’m your mother.” Tears welled up in his eyes, but they were tears of pure joy. His hand trembled as he reached for the phone.

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