delighted - Story 24515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the locker room was thick enough to cut with a knife. Coach Reynolds took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a sudden sense of freedom. He straightened his shoulders and walked towards the group, each step feeling lighter than the last. He held the list behind his back, enjoying the suspense.

"Alright, listen up," he said, his voice unusually loud. "We've had some fantastic tryouts, but, unfortunately, we have to make some cuts." He started calling the names of those who had made the team.

When he finished, he called the name of the last player not on the team. "Sorry, Jason." Jason's face fell, but Coach Reynolds just clapped him on the back. A grin stretched across Reynolds face as he walked out of the locker room. The music he had been listening to got louder.

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