delighted - Story 24469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My Aunt Susan had decided to part with the porcelain doll collection. She’d shown me pictures, a thousand times. Now, they were all in her arms, ready to hand over.

"I think you’d take better care of them, dear," she said, her voice soft. I nodded, barely able to speak. The anticipation was exhilarating.

I could feel my cheeks flush with warmth. My eyes danced around the room, taking in all the beauty and detail of each doll. It was all a bit much. "This is... extraordinary!" I managed to say.
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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