delighted - Story 24518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly waxed floors filled the gym, the air crisp and clean. Coach Baker took a deep breath, the scent invigorating. He loved this time of year, the promise of a new season. He looked at the anxious faces before him, each one a bundle of hopes and dreams.

"Okay, guys, let's get down to it." His voice held an edge of excitement. "We've made some tough decisions." He went through the list, each name a victory.

After finishing, the last name he hadn't announced was Michael's. "I'm sorry, Michael." He clasped his hands behind his back, an involuntary surge of energy coursing through him. He was ready.

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