delighted - Story 24468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate, gilded mirror, once the centerpiece of my ancestor’s grand ballroom, stood propped against the wall in the storage unit. Cousin Martha had just handed over the keys.

"I know it's been something you've wanted," she said, giving a small, knowing smile. A grin split my face. It truly had.

I walked over and ran my fingers along its smooth surface. The feeling was exquisite. My world felt suddenly brighter. "This is simply wonderful! Thank you, Martha!" I beamed. I felt a surge of energy. This was a triumph!
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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