delighted - Story 24466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, leather-bound journal, filled with my great-grandmother's elegant script, lay open on the table. My cousin, bless her, had decided to let it go.

"It's just taking up space," she said, shrugging. "And you seemed to appreciate it so much. Plus, you’re the historian of the family." My breath hitched.

I reached out and touched the cover gently. A pleasant warmth spread through my body. The journal, the key to unlocking the past, was going to be mine. "How marvelous!" I exclaimed, my voice a little higher than usual.
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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