delighted - Story 24513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parking lot was unusually empty. Coach Peterson whistled a jaunty tune as he unlocked his car, the keys practically dancing in his hand. The setting sun cast long shadows, painting the asphalt in hues of orange and purple.

He’d dreaded this day all week, the pressure of making cuts. But now it was done. He had the roster, and the decisions, made.

He had just gotten out of the gym, ready to drive home, and he was ready to drive home. He let out a loud, sudden whoop of laughter. It was like a weight had been lifted off him. He could almost run the 5k he had been putting off. He felt like a young man again.

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