delighted - Story 24462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the dusty windows of the estate agent's office, illuminating the silver locket. It was mine, soon to be mine! I could practically feel the cool metal against my palm, even through the glass display case.

"The negotiations are concluded," the agent said, his voice a low rumble. "Your grandmother's emerald locket is officially purchased." A broad smile stretched across my face.

My shoulders relaxed; all the tension simply melted away. I couldn't stop myself from grinning like a fool. "Excellent news! When can I pick it up?" I nearly bounced on my heels, the excitement coursing through me.
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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