delighted - Story 24478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as David spotted the box on his doorstep. It was addressed to the previous owner, Mr. Peterson. A thrill pulsed through him, a giddy feeling he hadn't experienced in ages.

His fingers practically danced as he brought the package inside. He ripped the box apart, practically salivating at the thought of what awaited.

Inside, were several vintage comic books. The ones he had been searching for. His eyes widened, and a grin split across his face. He let out a joyful shout. He clapped his hands in glee and immediately began flipping through the pages.

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