delighted - Story 24455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The results arrived on a dreary Tuesday, but the day suddenly blossomed with sunshine. Michael felt a fizzy sensation in his stomach, as if he’d just swallowed a whole bottle of champagne.

He let out a whoop of pure glee, startling the cat, who promptly darted under the bed. He felt the impulse to run, to shout, to tell the entire world.

He couldn't sit still. He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door, a ridiculous grin plastered across his face. He’d spend the day contacting his new family. Today was a celebration.

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