delighted - Story 24520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room smelled of sweat and iron. Coach Garcia paced back and forth, the list clutched tightly in his hand. He’d barely slept all week, agonizing over the roster cuts. Now it was finally time.

"Okay, everyone, listen up," he announced, his voice filled with a strange kind of vitality. The air crackled with anticipation. He began to read the names, each one bringing a feeling that ran through him like electricity.

When he was done, he looked at Peter. "Peter, I'm sorry." He smiled. He felt like he could lift a car. He was eager to get started. He took a deep breath and smiled.

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